Her Defiant Heart

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but I refused to listen. Asides from money what else do you bring to the table?! Nothing. Don't blame me for your demise bitch. Yo

me stung and I nearly

I was ready to leave I opened the door...or tried to be

yelled on top of my lungs. "Ma

ld and sharp twisted in my guts. This wasn

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ate. I was going to get fired. How

as on the nightstand, charging. Thank goodness. I

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on the floor, not even

too

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nd rhythmic. Not from inside the apart

st thing that I could think about

he thumping grew louder, accom

the floor. Something I'd never n

as Mark hiding

legs I grabbed a nearby sh

ing screech, revealing a cra

ified, a frantic scraping a

squeezed my body throu

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forcing me to crawl o

the darkness pressing

into a desperate bangi

nto the concrete floor, se

the sound was

t as I fumbled with the lock

g. Who was trapped down there? An

gainst something col

, but there it was, glin

I inserted it into the

tch. A wave of stale air an

came into view. Like she's been wa

hit me, nearly

n the stairs while she began

led by the clot

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d with both healed

towards her her doe eyes silent

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