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No, she was going after hiht way This e It was cold-blooded murder

And that hy she couldn’t have DSS remotely involved They couldn’t know They could never know until it was all over

Because once her mission was done, she wouldn’t resist She wouldn’t run She wouldn’t even hire a lawyer because she would be guilty

She was going to kill Tho to chance She’d stand over his body until his body became cold and lifeless and then and only then would she call it in, allow herself to be taken into custody and she’d give a full confession to the murder of a man who’d taken sovictim, the only one able to seek justice for all the women who couldn’t

They were all dead No one left, but her, to ensure their killer would never act out his depravities on another defenseless wo had a purpose She’d lived while so many hadn’t It had taken her a while to understand To sort through her grief, guilt, shock and anger to realize that she’d lived for a reason

And that reason was to seek justice for all the women who couldn’t

She was fully aware of the consequences of her actions The betrayal her team would feel as she turned away from the creed they upheld, followed, seekers of justice That she would be branded a murderer, outcast Her sentence would be swift She wouldn’t plead not guilty She wouldn’t cut a deal She wanted the maximum allowable sentence for the crime she planned to coh to the bitter end

Because even a lifetih for her to atone for her , innocent women Women whose lives had been traded for Eliza’s so that Eliza could live in her fantasy world of being a pampered, loved-and-adored beyond measure princess by a sadisticof love A word--and the trueof the word--now that Eliza was acquainted with it, she illing to do anything to protect, go to hell and back for Never let evil taint the people she loved or let her love ever beco used to control and ullible people

God save her soul She winced even as she thought it Because she had none There was nothing to save She was damned forever in the eyes of God and soon she’d be damned to the rest of the world, but worse, she’d be damned to the only people she’d ever allowed herself to truly care about Their disappoint Thomas had tried to do--God, he’d tried--but she’d been too strong, too deterht every step of the way not to allow him to win To break her

This, the loss of the people she loved, would irrevocably break her when nothing else in her young life had been able to ly i you all to the newest DSS recruits," Caleb announced, yanking Eliza fron and Beau opened the door of theroom and made a motion for the others to enter

Eliza’s eyes widened when the group of four h the door They were the epitome of badass and if she weren’t so deeply ensconced in worry and stressed out of hercome to Jesus with Dane, her feear