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Then there’s nothing No Tobias Harrington No killer No cold and dismal room

There’s just un aimed at my head

Ryder

I raise overnor’s BMW parked in front of the abandoned asyluh the front doors with my team at esture for Shawna and two other team members to ic tells me the basement is the perfect place to hold Hadley—pe

rfect because this building is

Slowly, stair by stair, weour way, as we begin the painstaking task of clearing, room by room Some are empty Some are eerily still full of hospital equipment And one room even has children’s toys But the silence remains until we reach the end of the hallway That’s where I hear voices Not only male voices, but Hadley’s voice is there, too, and it’s exuding fear

I don’t hesitate I move swiftly toward the open door

There’s a lot I can handle as a man But even I have my limits, and so I burst into the rooun trained at Hadley’s head for the second time I can’t even process what it does tome into a fury that knows no bounds

Training tells ht But the desire to protect calls for action

I plow into thethe weapon at Hadley’s head I hear Lee behind overnor, but he’s not the threat here He’s weak, and he’s also not the one I currently want to school He’s not thethe life of the woman who has claimed my soul

I lunge forward as he turns, firing off a shot The sound is deafening in this sh, and the bullet grazesof my flesh to steal my focus I’ain, deter hurt here today is the man in front of me

Hadley’s screaboth the fear and the relief in her voice I stay focused on the round

He un slips froht to keep his arh the force of er, and the bullet crashes into the wall, far too close to Hadley

Done with the use of weapons and relying on , I strike a hard blow to his face Day after day, the stress has been building, and today I plan to release it entirely on the one ical decision—knock hiic can’t stand in comparison to emotion I want this man to hurt

I want him to bleed