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Prologue

Coen

A little over two years ago…

I stare into the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen Maybe it’s the tears that ht, alht They are unmissable Maybe it’s the contrast of her dark hair and porcelain skin, but I can’t pull irl’s face That’s so to have to experience God knohat she’s been through in the past five hours One can only pray this was aboutmore, but you never knohen it comes to thieves

She looks nothing like the pictures I’d seen of her not hours ago when the search for a irl was launched Gone is the effortless, easy smile she had in each picture taken of her Froirl scout The deep di back Part of me aches that a piece of her innocence has been lost in all of this

“I promise I’ll catch you little bit Just ju down all around us, irl’s cries

She looks back behind her like she thinks so for her

“He’s not co for you” Her head snaps back around toback for her, because he’s dead I’d taken care of that Three shots to the chest He was dead before he even hit the ground Maybe when she learns that he won’t be able to haunt her dreams, she won’t be scared anymore To know that the man that had taken her on her walk hoift I wanted her to have An easy one to give

I wasn’t fucking around e entered I wasn’t there to ask questions I’d only had one thought since thethat tried to touch her needed to go, and I’d done just that I didn’t care if it had just been a siirl back unhar he could take her Just some two-bit criuessing the gas stations weren’t giving hih to do a job like this If he could make a criminal escalation that quickly, God only knehat else he could do He was better off dead

“You’ve got to ju a little , but the fire was Eating its way towards her one room at a time, no matter how hard the rain ca in Maybe because he was pissed he’d lost He figured he wouldn’t be getting his ransom, so maybe he set it to just to destroy evidence Eden was evidence

He et up the stairs to her, but that wasn’t going to stop et her I’d rushed back out of the house, hoping to go in from the back That’s when I saw her little face, her body leaning out the big