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“Okay,” he finally responded. “I’ll leave you alone… for now.”

I strained my ears when I thought I heard him walk away.

I knew it wasn’t going to be that easy. I knew from everything he had said to me before, as both Mael and my stalker, that he wouldn’t let me go. He proved it by showing up at this cabin, even if it was obvious I had been trying to run away from him.

I lay down with my cheek pressed against the floor and looked out through the bottom crack of the door.

I saw Mael’s black boots walking around in a strange pattern.

He was far away from the door, so at least that was something.

Until I realized why he was walking around like that, when one of the bodies came into view, and Mael effortlessly dragged it away.

I felt my heart stop as nausea worked its way up my throat.

I was going to be sick.

I took a deep breath, hoping to keep the feeling at bay.

Then an arm suddenly fell down in my view.

Nope.

I got up. Luckily, there was an en suite bathroom built inside the room, and I got there just in time to expel what little dinner I had a few hours before. Tears stung my eyes, and I felt so goddamn miserable and hopeless, I didn’t know what to do anymore.

There was no way out. No more. Mael wasn’t careless, and he wouldn’t let me run away from him a second time.

And I was now trapped inside this house with him.

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My hands balledinto tight fists when I heard her getting sick inside the room.

I took in the bodies of the two fuckers who had touched my girl.

It wasn’t random that they were here.

They were sent here. And I fucking knew who had sent them. Had I not been blinded by murderous rage upon coming into the cabin and seeing the two sick fucks trying to take off my girl’s clothes, I would have been rational enough to keep at least one of them alive to torture and interrogate.

They were lucky their deaths had been quick.

But it had been in front of Lia.

I never wanted her to see me like this, but she had, and now she was scared.

I closed my eyes briefly.

It wasn’t like I had planned not to tell her anything.

I would have told her the truth, and perhaps it would be easier to swallow after seeing me like this.

I didn’t fucking know anymore.

The best thing to do now was to bury the bodies and clean up this mess.

But first…

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