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Linc’s knees buckled as bile rose,His wife His beautiful wife What had these monsters done to her? “Jesus! What the fu—? Callie!” Linc cried as he tried to run to her

It was a wasted effort Whoever held hith Linc would never possess

“What did you do to her? Oh,and sobbing, but nothing broke his captor’s hold

She hadn’t reacted to his presence

She hadn’t even blinked

There was no rise and fall to her chest

She was dead

“Nooo!” He screa the arm across his chest to slip up into his windpipe

“Get the fuck up, dipshit I ain’t carrying your weight,” the rowled in his ear

They could let hi mattered anymore His beautiful, sas dead But what about…

His knees slaht What about Mary? Part of hihter, but what if that only alerted these thugs to her presence in the house?

“So, Mr Cannon, we have a little problem here”

What? Cannon? “I’m not—”

“Shut the fuck up!” the bearded man yelled “Your job is to say yes or no when I ask you a question, got that Cannon?”

“But—”

Thethe point of the knife into his cheek so hard it broke the skin Warasped in pain and shock

“You stole fro man, Cannon That was your firstto blaed to skim one hundred thousand dollars, I’ll never know, but I ain’t paid to know shit like that I’m paid to teach lessons”

One hundred thousand? They thought he stole one hundred thousand dollars fro on? He’d never taken anything from anyone in his entire life It was so surreal his head spun, and the bearded ether All he could think about was that his beloved as gone

Forever