Shield And Protection

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and remember the way her older sister Stella shoved her protec

al feet away. Over Stella's shoulder, Autumn wa

ide the man who had just extinguished four lives with single bullets to the head with frightening speed and accur

was

heard the frightening sound as the bullet left the sile

and tumbled back onto Autu

grandmother, and step-grandfather executed, Autumn recognized it in the crushing weight of her sister's bo

's heavy thread on the polished wooden floorboar

t door opened, and his voice hissed, "

voice say, "You said no one was going to get hurt, Un

hat the occupants had changed the security code of the safe and stayed up later in their own home than he'd expected and inconvenienced him. "Grab he

eld her breath as she waited for the m

n," the young man m

lowed by the sharp ret

self toget

y before as a sweet sixteenth birthday present. The chain held valiantly for a few seconds, and Stella's head lifted off the floor and Autumn

man's lighter sneakered thread as he collected her and Stella's iPhones an

atching tennis bracelet her mother had worn for the party earlier, as well

les Ubique Utiles. Faithful and Useful Everywhere is the motto of Gotham's College, the secondary school he'd attende

isit from the UK to celebrate Stella's sixte

satisfied that he had taken everything of val

yes daggers of rage that would have pierced them

cking mask disguise

t in the house before

had recently hired. His dead sister's son, Caleb Grayson, had been posted ou

d a hopeless fool in love. As he was about to leave the room, he turned his head

his stocking mask, his ey

slim body je

n her eyes seeming t

nection and pulled th

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ars

lled, accusing eyes, he was shaken out of his sleep to find

g girl had once again come to him in a dr

was no

had been the night his uncle had m

she was older

pin him effortl

ds were softly, calmly spoken with a faint British accent. Other than the tip of the knife at h

't kill me,