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o my flash drive, searching for anything or anyone unusual, I found nothing. Each piece

breathe, just to feel something other than pa

tsteps echo off the concrete. But strangely, tonight fe

locking the car door to get in, and a van rolled up behi

I had the time to think or react, a cloth was over my mouth and I felt the sharp pie

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ste of chloroform lingered on my tongue. I was gagg

d and I realized I was in th

help of the dim light that flickered fr

bags, and black gloves lined clean in the van.

masked, with his rifle across his l

ently against my ribs as f

apped and the worst part is I didn

gonna hurt you if you don't make us. But if

muffling the string load

." He

and a needle kissed my neck and everywh

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to the feeling of warmth, exp

g drugged and then I realized I was lying on a bed

chandelier dripping crystal tear

p almost i

I?' I muttered to n

lvet drapes. The glass walls wer

. This was a real-life mansion that s

didn't belong to any of the men that h

eyed. That kind of voice that would bring y

three-piece suit. His face was unfamiliar, he had a scar down his left

e-houses." He said. "We'll keep yo

ed, trying to stand

drug e

rn you. You saw the warehouse. You broke protoco

re Mr grumpy, I'm an offic

ut not anymore. That badge o

oking for me. They will find you all and bur

ared at me with an e

camera was mounted in a corner of the room. The door be

as trapped and the

e? Is Adrian behin

here was a flicker of just the smallest h

?" No answer. So

to speak

nd that's all you need

asked you people to kidnap me?"

know I'm here?

I realized, Adrian hadn't orde

where I was, not even Adrian, they might

ned to

don't you just kill me no

paused at

ian." He said quietly. "And som

t questions. But at least I knew they wouldn't

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t was secured, I tried the bathroom, but there wa

lothes that were inside. It was filled with all kinds and bran

floor, with my knees drawn to m

was just furious, and ben

e unrecognizable, but because I knew

ft of the boy who used to patch up my scraped kn

iar. That's

I paced around in the wide room

upted. The bedroom door o

y from earlier. This person moved silently and

up a finger. "Shh. I don't have long. I'm

rly due to how dim the

nging you here. When he finds out, it's g

d and why do yo

second in command."

s what they did. And because I believe you deserve the

eyes at him.

rf. He is not expanding. He's hunting someone. Someo

vously. " Like

nod

man who ordered your kid

ropped to

ready tomorrow at midnight. You'll come to the

anded me a ke

. "He has changed. But if anyone

to the shadows and I heard the