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ut it was nothing compared to the silence that foll

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ed, lifeless to the floor and how helplessly I watched t

their voices sharp with a foreign accent, thei

could never distinguish it if it had

growl. Low. Guttural. Something

d it and if trauma had twisted my

the men that had taken my life away and I couldn't help but remember the way my mo

inked onto his foot but that wasn't what gave him away. His accent had been what gave it away... I instantly knew that I had found one of

rain soaking through my clothes, I wa

even notic

d. He was running away from something but he wouldn't be ru

the dim light. "You look like y

are you?" He questioned, visibly distressed

er me, do you?" I took a slow step f

ghter. I look just like her, don't you think?" I

twisted,

my plastic smile dropped on

d dark. "And what¿ You think you're gonna get revenge

p in his chest– a growl, guttural

ugh the air, the bullet gra

ound. But instead of fear,

nly be doing me a

mm.

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shaking in my bones or the relentless pounding in

me beneath the bed. But no matter how hard I tried to be still, I couldn't

ched the tension in the roo

e or twice. Mom called them friends, but I never believed

rper, harsher, until every word felt like a knife. Mom was pleading, her voice raw w

warned me to stay out of it and that no matter what happened, I

dinner but there was no such luck because the next moment, the me

darkness, my tiny hands

I could see their shifting sh

e died instantly

y ears automatically. May

t inhuman-rumbled through the air. My stomach

as I watched the horrified scene in slow motion as my mom crumpled to the floor, her body h

came out. It was like my throat was locked up a

dn't. I couldn't move. It was like an invisi

was gone. Then, the ringing started-

en-dar

ent

gasping for air as my chest ros

ok from the claustrophobic effect of

ades since that night, and it was still as

clock drilled into my thoughts and head, int

of

out blindly for it and slammed

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beginning of my day. Sleep was a luxury I couldn't a

here and I was not going to sleep un

hardwood of my bedroom floor. The chill grounded me, reminded me that I wasn't that helpless li

venge her death--- I was going to make them pay. Every

ferno. The

oming f

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way to the famous Ductal hotel, I he

et into the Iron Vine group and I

n the mirror as I entered the hotel lo

d hair, minimal make

t Duncan Romano didn't know that. All he knew was that I was coming

n hair that reached his shoulders with

, y

l man. He was hot, my type

d and I nodded and foll

and he punched the bu

ay of the penthouse, the man su

it's protocol," he said,

even though what I felt insi

and he began to search me, sur

y weapon on me and that I wasn't wired

door and stepp

I will get

watched as he disappeared

formation I could use but this was a hotel room and ther

is case had either been found dead or mutilated in an animalistic way. No detective had ever lived to tell t

cologne, and something else-something mus

. My fingers curled around my folder, feigning nonchalance, but i

creak

sured, deliber

tepped int

an R

years studying, hu

that fell just past his ears. His sharp jawline was lined with the shadow

d for a split second, I felt something unnatural slither over

dat

o remain composed as I steppe

d myself, my voice stead

He just stood

retched unbear

owl rumbled th

iffe

shook me t

and falling asleep if he was scenting the air o

ed one word. One single word t

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