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Thortonby now so no matter how much she hurt, she had no choice but to run Each tih her sole and ankle

"Hey! Stop!" A male voice sounded behind her, but she didn’t listen Didn’t dare slon or even look back Every second counted

Her legs and lungs burned as she sprinted toward another street and with every strike of her right foot on the pavelass A few ho cart but when they saw her, they looked the other way

Nice

When she reached the new street, it was eamble, she headed south, then took the first left she calance behind her, she felt a short burst of relief that no one was behind her But that didn’twas difficult, but adrenaline had taken over

She’d have maybe thirty seconds to find a place to hide Or s and e her, she wasn’t so sure she wanted to hide in any of the dark entrances she spotted There were probably worsea trail of blood for her pursuer to follow

When she rounded another corner, Iris stopped dead in her tracks Barely ten feet in front of her two ainst a bright gold convertible with expensive looking riaze fell lower she realized they both had guns tucked into the front of their jeans And neither of theh she could disarm one of them, but she wasn’t sure she could disarm two Not when she wasn’t at her complete best

Had she just escaped one hte of the last abandoned building on the street He peered around the corner, but Iris was gone The woman had moved fast too He still couldn’t believe she’d escaped He’d checked on her a few times and she’d been passed out on the mattress She should still be asleep He hadn’t wanted to dose her too heavy and risk killing her before he got his money, but he should have Hell, he should have just left her tied up in the chair, but had wanted to show her a little kindness before she died

Glancing at his watch, his heart rate tripled Wyatt would be here in less than ten h his head as he tried to get a handle on the situation He hated being out of control

He could leave and pretend he’d never been involved in any of this There was no way Iris had recognized him He’d been careful of that And he’dhis partner had been a difficult choice, but a publicly unknown branch of Thorton Enterprises had just developed new technology; a type of small, untraceable explosive It had worked well, too He’d put the chip right into Keibler’s cell phone So even if Keibler was dead, he now had data on the extent of dae one chip could do

When Zac had taken over the company from his deceased father, he’d learned all about his father’s less-than-reputable dealings And he’d also taken over his fucking father’s debt He should have just let the company crumble, but he’d needed to prove to himself and the world that he could turn Thorton Enterprises around even when his father hadn’t been able to Unfortunately Wyatt Christiansen had kept stealing deals frootten Zac wasn’t sure how he did it, ti people off, but no one was that lucky

With Christiansen and Keibler’s history, pinning everything on Keibler had been easy enough Hell, he’d even ed to set up a blind date between Keibler and Sato without personally becos up

What the hell was he going to do now?

He turned at a creaking sound behind hi to himself as he strolled down the cracked sidewalk