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“Da to hurt you,” he whispered in that same deep undertone
Blood was oozing fronored it And to Keira’s shocked amazement he didn’t follow up on her physical helplessness In fact, he turned away fro from the other room
Now Keira could hear it, too, over the rasping sound of her own breathing; coarse uttural catcalls, as if Keira’s screams were entertainment for the men in the other room
“What—” she began, but he covered her mouth with his free hand
“Shh” He pressed his lips to her ear, but not in a et out of here,” he breathed “Unless you want -raped by the his head in the direction of the other room, “or worse, promise me you’ll do exactly what I tell you to do, when I tell you to do it You got that?”
She sed as her panicked brain assi Then she nodded His hand came off her mouth but hovered close, as if he didn’t trust her not to ask questions in a voice that could be heard from the next room But Keira wasn’t stupid She knew in a flash that instead of trying to rape her he was trying to rescue her
She didn’t knohy he was risking his life this way, but she didn’t care Going with him was infinitely preferable to the fate in store for her if she stayed here And if she was going to die, as she had feared from the moment she’d been kidnapped fro except sub raped and murdered
“Okay,” he whispered His lean, ed for a ot control of herself and watched him move across the room
For a big man he moved with incredible stealth He had seemed to tower over her earlier, but now she saw that, while he ell above six feet, he wasn’t a giant of a er than he actually was
He was clean shaven, and while his angular features weren’t pretty-boy handsome, they were attractive in a masculine way His sun-streaked blond hair was close-cropped, though not injeans he wore left no doubt that he was in perfect physical shape The kind of ht with hysterical abstraction, lance at if they passed him on the street
He was trying to open the singlein the room, but it resisted his efforts, and Keira could tell he wasn’t using his full strength because he was trying to get it open without anyone in the next rooht shatter
She started toward hiot there he reached down into his boot and carimaced, as if he hated to sacrifice his knife in this way, then inserted the blade between theand the frame and exerted doard pressure
With a slight creak of warped wood, a crack opened up, then widened enough for hiether they got theopen far enough for theh
“Tie up your shirt,” he breathed next to her ear, and all at once Keira realized it was gaping open, all the buttons gone from when he had tried to make her scream And her bra ry, too, from when he’d mauled her She quickly adjusted her bra and pulled the ends of her blouse together, knotting them beneath her breasts It wasn’t neat, but at least she was decently covered
“You go first,” he said in a whisper “I’ll let you down nice and easy Try not to make any noise when you move away from the ”
She nodded, not trusting her voice He put his hands on her waist and lifted her effortlessly, high enough for her to slide her feet through theembrasure He balanced her on thesill for a moment while she ducked her head under the , then his hands slid beneath her arround