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emi
body parts behind for identification." The man across the table sw
lyn docks were ugly this time of night, dark water, rusted shipping containers, and men with guns pretending loyalty could be bouthis table looked nervous as they should. The Rivera crew had been skimming money from shipping routes tied to my company for months, thinking we
rossed, watching the room quietly. Most people underestimated Bonner be
oss," one of the ri
aped him. I watched his confidence collapse immediately afterward.
veryone turned instantly toward the noise to see a woman stumble inside, drenched from the rain, breathing har
exploded ou
ough the entrance behind her. Chaos swallowed the warehouse, and men
near stacked crates while rival
!" someon
should've irritated me, but my focus stayed on her, which was weird. She moved fast despi
flinched sharply. Then our eyes met across the warehouse, and something strange hit me direct
oking away from her. The man dropped instantly, but the woman just stared at
nner shout
bed a metal pipe from the floor and hurled it upward hard enough to crack the shooter across the face. The man
the
deeper into the warehouse toward the loading
? Whoever she was, I needed to find out. I
omeone shou
y at the name, t
rest
was sprinting through shadows, the next, I slammed her ag
sped s
hile the other braced beside her head. Up close
ere was dirt smeared across her cheek, and pani
"No answer."W
tantly outside while rain thundered against the
een. Another weird thing about the woman who burst through my warehouse meeting. And things get w
harper, she looks alarm
her pain exploding through my hand. "Fuck!"She bit me hard enough to draw b
ke fire racing through my veins. The woman stared at me in shock for one brief second
ces shouted o
the blood running down my hand. The bite burne
beside me inst
g dock where she disappear
nked once.
ng beneath the wound, and for some reason, the scent of rain and
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