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"Have you seen ruff voice demanded

Isabella shook her head

"He’s around here so out to onna have to wait to be ry with their tits sore from the milk"

"Oh, ah…I hate when that happens," Isabella said, not really knowing how she should respond She didn’t speak crazy, but if he let her live she’d be willing to learn

He nodded firo check the barn," he said, heading back into the alley between two brick buildings

Isabella jumped to her feet, fixed her hat, andshe needed was for hi

She made her way to the s place five ed her backpack to her chest, trying to catch her breath

In no as being in a rundown park at three in the et rid of her program It wasn’t over money, she was far fro one of her babies or allowing the government to take it froet her a slot on the ten o’clock news toht when they found her nude body in so position tomorroell, really today

"This is stupid," she decided to say out loud just to add e she already knew She couldn’t let her prograo to someone who needed to ? In the wrong hands her prograe

This really was not one of her finer ot to her feet Well, she’d have to chop this up to a life lesson and figure so else out

She started towards the street, hoping she’d spot a taxi that could take her safely back ho forward to the return walk She idly wondered if her farures stepped out of the darkness in front of her

"Miss S, were you?" a tall thin ht accent she couldn’t quite place asked in an amused tone

"Ah, no?" She forced her eyes to focus on anything other than the scar running down his face and the one across his throat So

"That’s very good," thefro herself that she really sucked at fighting Seriously, it was sad Her only , which usually

Theand opened it He tossed her candy bars to the ground and she almost bitch slapped him then and there What kind of sick bastard came between a wos soon followed along with her iPod, bottle of water, and cell phone When he pulled out her Netbook she nearly winced at the thought of that getting tossed into the pile It wasn’t her main computer It was just a cheap little computer that she used when she was out and wanted to play around with some code Still, she loved it It was s on its hind legs eating a carrot set as her wallpaper It was really cute

He handed the computer off to one of his men A moment later he pulled out three CD cases "I presume this is what I’m after?"

Nope, but Isabella nodded slowly She forced herself to re to kill her than at least she could die knowing they just screwed themselves over with no way to repair it Ever