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“Can I tell you a funny story, Detective?” That voice, so soothing, so deceptive about the evil it held captured between the ainst the cuffs to no avail

“You can go fuck yourself”

He lifted an eyebrow at me “How uncouth Trust me, Detective, this is a story you ant to hear You see it involves the woman that we both can’t seem to stay away from”

I didn’t want to hear hi and straining, while he just watched me like I was an animal stuck in an exhibit at the zoo

“When I saw her that day after she turned herself in, I knew I had to have her Beautiful, soft, but with an edge She was perfect for e, the need to ed her It wasI had ever wanted and I thought she hated this place, the things it had done to her I thought she would stand with me and watch it burn because she understood”

“She thinks you’re a sociopath She saw through you, Roark She’s good like that She has X-ray vision”

I heard soround and could hear Roark’s et their shots in I was a life-size piñata and they couldn’t wait to tear into me I told myself I had to wait an hour I could survive an hour before the cavalry showed, that was if Reeve did what I told her to do and didn’t try so ainst the cuffs was getting ers around theled there Roark wandered a few steps closer to me

“Maybe she did, but she never saw through the man that made me You really believe Novak would be so selfless, or even slightly altruistic enough to take out a irlfriend? You think Novak cared about anyone else enough to get involved in their petty drama? The answer is no He was a businessirl The boyfriend owed hi it up his own nose He wouldn’t pay up, so he got taken care of It was just coincidence that Reeve showed up begging for retribution The guy was a dead round Novak was a clever ht prove useful down the road, so he let her believe for years that she was the catalystthat she had it in her to be a killer He kept her on a string and it was beautiful I thought she could be my doll too”

He leaned closer and I saw e my hands had on the cuffs and wrenched s out so that I could hook the neck and started to squeeze He punched at hter I was going to choke the life out of him and I didn’t care if I took a bullet in the back

“People aren’t toys” I huffed the words out and just as Roark was turning purple, and really looking like he was going to go down to his knees, soh that it o immediately limp My head fell forward and I felt blood start to run down the back of my neck in an untamed river

So rattled There was a clank and a whoosh I faintly heard a thud and all I could do was silently swear and groan ashad begun in earnest

“Fuck you You’ll kill me before I break”

“All of this over a girl Really, Detective King, I thought you would prove to be e She made you soft She ot there was a war going on when they got distracted by their dicks twitching No girl is worth dying for”