lently as it chewed through th
ng window, drifting in and out of a restle
ed over, but her lower abdom
is armored Maybach, his eyes bloodshot but victorious. He had crushed
Bryant ordered his dri
f the mansion. The head butler and three r
cked his
face pale. "The madam... she kn
orm cloud. He kicked the nearest guard in the
He saw the shattered glass, the blood o
ed it into the full-length mirror, sendin
n, and toll booth in New York!" Bryant
t through the hedges. Her phone pinge
had planned this, that she had outsmarted him,
justing his cuffs with bloody knuckles. "Hire the best privat
ed to a stop in a dying coal town nestled deep
ss Brenda had whispered to her during their last brief, unmonitored encoun
ood up and walked down the cracked sidewalk unt
pen the grea
ping down a beer glass
ce and the dried blood on her sleeve, the glass
losed', locked the door, and pulled Jan
es gave out. She collapsed into Brenda's
thing. The forced marriage, the pregnancy, th
tight. "That monster will never find you here.
lle to her secluded wooden c
g away the blood and the smell of the ci
r a cheap, plast
a said firmly. "From now
Ella' an under-the-table job making organic soaps in a sma
se in New York, Bry
t and vanished from her New York apartment weeks ago, rendering his 'detailed files' ob
ltrasound photo on his desk. Hi
ent vow to the empty room. I will
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