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"In that case, I’ve another tidbit for you"
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"You know that iteaze to meet Aden’s "Yeah?"
"Not everyone was happy with Lord Aden’s interference in their business"
"Is that what the cool kids are calling slaves these days?"
"Don’t fuck with et any further, because Aden yanked the phone froh bullshit," he demanded "Where is she?"
"My lord," Elias breathed, and Aden could hear both shock and fear in those tords This hat it was like to be a vao, he’d been Aden, just another powerful vampire Noas Lord Aden, with the power to reach out and stop a va
"Talk," Aden ordered
"Carl Pinto,Drugs, too, but he really liked the idea of owning those wohtly, he had trouble forcing out the single word If Pinto had touched Sidonie, he was going to die Actually, he was going to die either way, but if he’d dared to har
"I can give you the address, my lord, but it would be easier to show you"
"Fine" Aden handed the phone over to Travis "Set up a meet We leave in five ish and tired, fighting her brain’s insistence that she wake up She wanted to go back to sleep, and there was no reason she couldn’t She was a freelance reporter It wasn’t as if she had a set schedule, and if she’d had an appoint, she rolled over, jerking in pain when so hard and… Her eyes popped open as she re into her hip was
She sat up too fast,her head spin dizzily as she eyed the other women in the room, her fellow captives Except that they obviously didn’t view her as a fellow anything There was very little light, only a bare, yellowed bulb overhead, but enough for her to count seven other women huddled as far away from her as the small room and their chains would permit Distrust of her was plain on their faces, layered on top of a weary sort of horror at their predica her hair away froainst the wall, easing hertwisted on the gritty wooden floor She closed her eyes and tried to reether the events that had led to her waking in this filthy roo asleep, but her body told her that hours had passed The as barred on the inside and boarded over outside, but she could see enough to knoas nighttiht as when she’d been kidnapped
She re to the va her into this roo her hands free She’d felt exciteun And thennothing until she’d woken up just now But so more than the obvious, because she shouldn’t have been able to sleep at all She should have been wide awake and terrified Those bastards ain, but how? She hadn’t eaten or drunk anything In fact, she was as thirsty as if she’d just run a fewaround idly for water and not finding any Not a surprise
She pressed her back against the wall, then reached down and began to work thecra on the floor Bending first one leg, then the other, she brought each knee to her chest and back down several tihsShe frowned, running her fingers over her right thigh It was more than sore It was tender, with a hard knot that was so feverish she could feel it through the heavy denim of her jeans Under other circuht much about it She bruised easily and badly, and she frequently had no memory of what caused any particular mark But this was otten vaccinations before going to South Aative reaction to…
Shit The guard hadn’t been pinching her thigh last night Or, rather he had, but he hadn’t been sizing her up for rape, he’d given her a shot of so She’d been so relieved when he’d cut her hands free, but he’d only done it because he knew she’d be out Jesus, what had he given her? What if it was so addictive? What if the needle hadn’t been clean?
She forestalled a full-blown panic attack by reer andheld prisoner by a vampire anted her dead, whose most opti addiction she could deal with, a disease she could fight Later When she was free
What she needed to focus on noas getting out of here and taking all of these wo to the oldest of the woer than Sid herself Sid’s Spanish was good Her er, was Puerto Rican and had used nothing but Spanish when speaking to Sid