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I release a loud breath. “The only thing to do is to find out. He’s likely behind every kidnapping attempt and success. The trafficking, everything.” A gut-wrenching feeling whirls through my belly.

“I say we go pay a surprise visit then kill them,” Mal suggests with her chin tipped at me.

“I'll get with Anita.” And hopefully, she'll be healed by then.

Boone doesn’t comment, which I understand he won’t be there.

“Alright, let's get this fucker,” I say with a nod.

“You’re not killing him here?” Mal says.

I grab Victor by his suit, yanking him from his comfortable spot, then I look at Mal. “I have something better planned for him” I snatch him up, excited about the gift I have for my little snake.

Chapter 27

Anita

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Location: GenCre Academy

Operation: Yeah, my ribs hurt.

I rest my head onto the arm rest of the couch. The cool leather caressing my cheek. I’m careful to not lean the wrong way due to my bruised ribs.

Dr. Rio's words exactly.

I sigh, rubbing over my tank top where my ribs lie. Never have I had a man care for me enough todemandI leave. To take care of myself.

How can I do that when I've neglected it for this long? How does one recover from the deprivation of their wellbeing? It left me discombobulated and angry. Angry at Ronan for caring about me more than I care about myself. Putting myself before a goal is foreign to me.

If that was my father, he would've thrown me a pack of ice and forced me to go into that building. I vividly remember spraining my foot from a fall during an obstacle course. My father dragged me up and shoved me to keep going.

I did.

It left me with an ankle so swollen it still hurts randomly to this day. Or maybe it's just a phantom pain.

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