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“It’s all good Believe ” She du off the back of a chair “Honestly”

“I don’t like this,” Wyatt said

“Yeah, well, we can’t stop her”

She chuckled “Go and enjoy your gaet us food”

She headed toward the door and didn’t give theue The moment she cleared the elevator and was out onto the city street, she took a deep breath She’d done it Glancing left and right, she rushed across the road, feeling a sense of freedom

Every now and then, she kept checking behind her and couldn’t see anyone following her

She headed into a bookstore and went straight to the travel section For the past year she’d been thinking about it a lot Her fa and enjoying their place in this neorld that had been opened up to the sold off to the highest bidder Her life, her freedom, it was all relevant now At first, she’d been hesitant to embrace this new life, to allow herself to believe that she could be free

Ti out for her to take this chance

A fresh start away from the city Away from this horrible life

She was under no illusions about the Denton family They came from the same walk of life as she did They controlled the city, and since they’d taken back power over a year ago when their enemies threatened to take their croay, they’d coer, meaner

Even the basee they could do

What she did know, as she lay awake night after night, was she didn’t want to stay here This life, it wasn’t for her It would never be hers, and when she could, she wanted out Running her fingers across the titles, she found what she was looking for A villa in Italy sounded ideal, but a sland, or just a quiet place near the ocean She didn’t need anything big or elaborate, just a life away from what she’d known

Gideon took great pleasure as he sla this past year It hadn’t surprised him the sheer nu them One by one, they had all fallen, where they wanted the Dentons to fall

Too bad he wasn’t willing to go away that easily He was a Denton, and as such, it ht and a lot of blood spilled

Over and over, he hit the bastard that had thought he could tell their secrets Only when he wasn’t breathing anymore did Gideon stop