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"Fuck," I breathe, seeing the bruises covering her sthe gag first from her mouth, her head lowers and a loud sob rips fro her in place "It’s gonna be okay" I tell her, taking offback," she says, lifting fright-filled eyes up toto kill me when he comes back"

"You won’t be here when he does," I assure her, picking her up and handing her off to Harlen, who is standing close to my side "Get her to the hospital," I tell hiether, then toon"

"On it," heto the back of the room

"Mic, see if you can close the door," I say caloes out to the ay and kicks off the broken pieces of wood then co in the roo the place is a mess There are clothes, empty food containers, and beer bottles thrown around the rooe to burn through every cell ofup next to uy maybe the only lead we have to find the one anted Ellie"

"I know," I agree, but that doesn’t stop the ito the door and holding his phone in his hand, typing so it in his pocket Pulling his gun froht "How pissed is Nico going to be if I shoot this stupid fuck?" he asks, and I grin then ainst the wall, I hear the sound ofup the concrete stairs that lead to the second level When we finally hear keys jingling, I swing the door open and shovefor you," I growl, grabbing his shirt inhim into the room Once he’s inside, Wes kicks hi hi shoot you," I snarl, restraining his hand he’s trying to get to his back, where he has a gun

Locking his hands behind him, I use one of the plastic zip-ties froether then search hiun from his waistband, but there’s also one in the ankle of his boot

"I didn’t do anything," he says as Sage helps e of the bed

"Yeah? How about we play Let’s Make a Deal?" I say as his eyes scan the roo for the wo," he repeats when he doesn’t see her

"Tellyou shit," he shouts, spitting at un in his hand, I look at hiht ear

"Talk,to Wes before ain

"I don’t knoho he is He always has one of his rins then scans the roo with"

Putting a bullet in the chaainst his knee "Who do you contact when you have a pick-up?" I ask again, placing my face inches from his

"Fuck you," he snaps, and I let off a round in his knee that has hi question Who do you contact when you have a pick-up?"

"Nah, cous’ Alive, reun when I raise it to Yury’s terowls, and Yury’s eyes turn to hiaze to mine "Shoot me, motherfucker I’m dead anyways"

"Tellwork behind his eyes then his nostrils flare

"All I got is an e that had been strangling me since Ellie walked out of the woods towarda step back, I takein the inforivesabout the fact that Yury’s bleeding everywhere

Getting init up outside of the hospital, where I stopped to check on Avalee, the woainstwith her at the hospital until her faet into town She is still asleep and would be in the hospital for a few days while she recovers fro home with her parents, who live in Mississippi She wouldn’t talk to the police without Harlen with her and refused to let hio, even when the doctors explained they needed to exa them no choice but to sedate her

Froed her, her friends had been insisting she get out and date, so she downloaded a dating app onto her phone and met Yury They chatted for a couple of days before she finally agreed tohow si Tallon did a search of the dating app site and found nothing Avalee’s profile had been erased along with any chats she had with Yury leading up to theirNow that there was a correlation between the two cases there was a chance the other woman could be found