HER SIN

ains graphic gore, and viol

rearview mirror again, her sh

cl

leek black frame, the kind of car t

at all subtle, not in how

smir

tly, she let her car slow down, j

lso slowing but still able t

ate

a quieter street, the city's bu

UV fo

rill of the chase, the rush of adrenaline, it was almost enou

her smirk widening. "Let'

d gears, the Lamborghini roaring to l

creeching against the pavement as s

ts engine growling

n turne

just as the light turned red. The SUV forced through afte

tent, a

d slipping through narrow alleyways. Even if she hadn't been here in a long time, she still kn

SUV didn

wheel wasn't just persi

lightly, replaced by

ver, let's see what y

, the buildings on either side giving way

s cutting through the darkness

wheel as she made a sudden, sharp turn

t, its tires kicking up a cloud

after her, stoppin

the cracked asphalt. She didn't bother closing the door behi

re you just going to sit t

hut off, plunging the

n, and men poured out li

No, ten

armed with machine gun

ad and a scar running from his temple to his

grinning. "Wow, all these

gun, aiming it di

snapped, holding up

oed mockingly, her tone dripping with sarcasm. "How generous. But I have to

the men growled, his gr

worse; monster, devil, demon. But you..." She gestured toward the

leader snarl

a deafening BANG that ech

ett m

he bullet whizzing past he

as she darted forward, closing the di

e he could react, the sickening crunch o

bling backward, his han

idn't

ne gun, yanking it fr

a club, the heavy metal smashing into

s his skull caved in, b

the sharp rat-a-tat-tat of gun

d as bullets slammed into the asphalt aro

t, grabbing the mache

r with a spiked chain, sw

, the metal spikes whi

he drove her fist into his gut with

n, yanked it free and wra

bulging as she pulled tighter,

not to play with sharp objects?"

answer. He

awing at the chain as blo

ng sound of flesh tearing filling the air

the chain clattering

heti

arged her at once, t

odied face gleaming

ng a crowbar, aim

hes, before driving her elbow into his gut, t

, she slammed it

UN

e music to her ears. Blood gushed down

sed his gun, but S

rabbing the barrel an

bullet tearing thro

o his knees as blood s

to run, but she grabbed the spike

ankle, sending him c

boots crunching over shatter

, crawling backward, but

, the blade catching the fa

HHH

, she brought it

AC

ately shattered

his blood spill out, her eyes

free, blood spraying across her face

alone, his machine

d, his eyes wide

, her grin never faltering. "What's wr

fir

bullet still manage

, she did

ed the distance between them

ward, the barrel p

u're a monster." The

"Goodnight," she p

O

od and brain matter splatt

er hands, her chest heaving

lothes, and her boots, with so

t. "Did you guys really think it

es, and wiping her bloodied hands on his shir

phone suddenly buz

her grin widening a

x

lmost immediat

gift?" a hoarse voic

ed to the bodi

ot against one of the corpses, smearing blood across the pavem

ed. "You always

onestly, I'm disappointed. Sending thugs? Really? You'

blew up my warehouse

s foreplay. If you're mad about that, mayb

ehouse, then having people write on the floor with

tai

sane," Adr

ved every s

e hung up, slipping the phone back

engine echoing through the blood-soaked s