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She was alive

And so was my resolve to kill this motherfucker

"If you somehow come out of this alive, I assure you, you won’t be that way for long I may be alone now, but there are people out there They knohere I a?" Tanner laughed "They think you’re ht? So, when I crawl out of here they’ll easily believe what I tell theed in here Had a fight with the senator Guns were fired People died That’s all she wrote"

He leaned down and pushed the hair out of her face, kissing her on the lips She stirred andme that I couldn’t help her I wanted to carry her out of there and put a bullet in this kid’s brain "What’s going…?" She stared to ask Her eyes opened and landed on Tanner She jumped like she’d been doused with ice water, but bound to her own chair, both legs and wrists, she couldn’t get more than an inch or two as she tried desperately to scoot across the floor and away from Tanner He picked up her overturned chair and set her a few feet in front of h to where if I reached out to her, I could put a hand on her leg If I had use ofthe barrel of his gun down her cheek "I’ to be okay, now"

"Tanner No I have to go I have to go get…" She stue Tanner had inflicted Tanner grabbed her chin and forced her head up

"This who you’re looking for, dear?" he asked, rubbing his nose against her cheek

Doe’s eyes seemed to finally focus, and when they did and they landed on led against her restraints but it was useless Surprisingly, Tanner released her bindings

"Kneel," he hissed

"Please Don’t do this Let’s talk okay? You andto do with this anyway and we’ll go for a walk like we used to do and talk"

"The ti tired of all the fucking talking!" he screaain This tiht out to me

I’m sorry, she mouthed to me

I wish I could tell her this wasn’t her fault This wasthat happened So instead I focused on not losing hope I focused on what it would feel like to squeeze the last breath fro touch her," I roared

"Do you think she really wants a white trash piece of shit like you? She’s confused She doesn’t knohat she wants The only reason she was even with you was because she has a brain injury" Tanner’s eyes glazed over "She’sto be the family ere always supposed to be…" Tanner trailed off

I wanted to keep hi then h until Bear and Jake showed up "You really think she’s gonna want you now after you’ve shown her that you’re a coiveness," Tanner said Then he scoffed "And refresh o to prison because you killed your own ed "Cunt deserved it"

Tanner tapped on Pup’s head, "Well, this cunt deserves this" He reached down to the hem of her T-shirt and pulled it up over her head until it rapped around her ar a bra Her bare breasts were exposed to the night air and to Tanner who blew out a whistle "Al"

I pulled at the cuffs, they dug into the skin on my wrists until I felt the trickle of warers, and onto the floor

Tanner rounded Doe and knelt behind her, fu on the floor I couldn’t see "Now this…" he said, tapping on her tattoo There was a hissing sound Like gas being released fro with A o" He pressed the flame to her skin I pulled harder at the cuffs

The sled screams