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“We know They’re parked out front We think they’re waiting for so the rope down for her” He tugged on the harness, and so her

“You don’t understand,” she said, grasping his hand, trying to make him listen, before it was too late It was her fault Dex had suspected her when she’d tried to get Trevor to leave that first tiet out the back Dex nailed the door shut”

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Sa he’d heard wrong So ht as someone knocked at the front door

Sa Chad, “Hold up”

He looked at Allegra, trapped in the harness, hanging in the , probably scared to death about her son Right now, he needed her help in evening out the odds “Any way you can get Dex up here?”

“Promise you won’t kill him?”

A promise he couldn’t make “I’ll try not to”

Her gaze flicked to the doorway and then nodded Sam helped her out of the harness She looked back at him and stepped out into the stairwell “Dex!” she shouted “Trevor’s gone!”

Dex swore, his heavy footsteps echoing in the stairwell as he ran up Once again, Sa the rope a fir

She reached out, her eyes pleading “He wasn’t always this way”

Theher out, Sa for Dex

By the tirowinglabored “Allegra!” He saw her feet disappearing out the open , and he rushed toward her, his gun drawn

Sa the nose of his Smith & Wesson into Dex’s ribs “Nice of you to join us,” he said, grabbing Dex’s shoulder, forcing hiun”

Dex held tight “You knoho’s at the door? They’ll kill you”