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Apparently, I got irritating enough at one point that Adah to knock me out

I woke up with uard’sto know I couldn’t have been out for h, as I woke up a little groggy and with a headache jackhah my temples

The first thing that flashed across my eyes wasn’t my possible—hell, probable—rape and murder

No

It was the scene back in the cabin

The one where Bellahly-trained iven me his knife as he demanded I try to at least hide if I couldn’t escape

I’d been in that pantry setting up with broken pieces of glass and canned soup and vegetables like I stood any chance at all when the bastards broke in But I had to keep myself busy because if I didn’t, I would let all those other ugly thoughts slip in

Like Bella room floor

My heart crushed in my chest at the very idea

It was right there in that closet with a knife in one hand and a big can of sweet corn in the other that I had a revelation

I was falling for the bastard

I was falling for him

And he was likely bleeding out on the floor one room away from me

Tears flooded ot pulled open

There was no tiht response kicked into overdrive, leaving et past the metal shelves I’d shoved between myself and the door

Did I likely give a black eye or broken nose?

Sure

But it was no real defense

Not againstand motivated by money

They would stop at nothing to get me

And that was exactly what they did

I took a fist to the ers was broken froers

They’d been distracted, though, with trying to grab me

AndI could in that situation

Shoved a piece of glass into ed out of the pantry by my hair