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npour, the icy rain soakin
ache of starvation, and my
eg down the dark stre
er a concrete bridge a
uld close, three str
rough concrete, snatching t
instinct took over and I fought, biting and scratching. A curse, a sharp kick to my
g to my chest. I lay on the cold, wet ground, too exhauste
ghts of a convoy cut through
mored SUVs surroun
, and boots splas
me, their faces a mask of ang
m seeped through my thin sleeve, the damp fabric chafing a new wound a
n my other arm so tight I felt the press of his signet ring aga
ard the SUV, ignori
me into the back sea
e of his
er, the panicked voic
l herself. She's lost a lot of blood. The clin
earview mirror and saw nothing-no hesitation, no doubt, no trace of the boy who had once held me through my nightmares. He was racing toward the clinic to save the girl wh
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