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She jerked at the nearness of the frigid low voice She kept her head down as roughed-up boots with dirty jeans came into view

Her attacker responded froe “She came up on us at the bar Wasn’t sure what the boss wanted to do with her Figure it best to bring her back here”

“Wrong,” the guy snapped “You should have left her to burn in the bar Why the fuck would you bring her here?”

“We didn’t have tirabbed her There are security ca her was too risky”

There was a long pause Then, “The boss isn’t gonna like this”

The men around Kinsley shifted on their feet

Kinsley’s hand went straight to her belly She knew she had to run, get away Because, suddenly, it wasn’t if she was going to die, but when A cold sashed over her, fear pu her heart until her head swam

Rhett…

Her hand pressed tighter against her belly…Oh, little one…

Her fah her oodbye Nowhere near ready

A pair of shoes clicked against the cement floor Each click deepened her breath a little bit more Until theoff hih she told herself that she shouldn’t look Her eyes etting out of there The coldness there, the lack of humanity, made her shiver

Tears welled up in her eyes before she forced herself to blink the to shoeakness Never Not in front of this killer

The un aimed at her “Do you realize who this is?”

Her captor shifted nervously on his feet “We had no choice but to bring her”

“You most definitely did have a choice,” he countered “You should have put a bullet through her head and left her there”