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Amelia Autin

Prologue

“Scream”

Keira Jones pushed the hair out of her eyes with both hands and stared in inco and clawing all the way from the other roo her bones as he’d thrown her onto the filthy bed in the corner of this roo to shut the door behind them and lock it

And then nothing Nothing except that one word uttered in a harsh undertone—scream

“What?” she gasped

He held one finger to his lips, pressing his ear against the wooden door He cast a sharp glance around the roorabbed a rickety chair and propped it under the door handle Then he moved purposefully toward Keira

She scrambled off the bed and backed away fro to be raped, she wasn’t going to make it easy for hi, anything to use as a weapon, but he was on her before she had a chance

“I said screary voice was pitched to carry no farther than a foot away as he plastered her body against the ith his muscular frame

But she couldn’t Her heart was pounding in her chest, and her breath was coed from a throat dry with terror she refused to betray

He made a sound of frustration deep in his throat He held her squirripped the lapels of her cotton blouse and ripped it open froain when one hand groped her breast through and beneath the fabric of her bra while the other hs

She clawed at his face He ducked, but she had the savage satisfaction of seeing her fingernails make contact with his skin and leave four red welts before he captured her flailing hands and pinned them both to the wall over her head with one iron hand