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I need to get to the office.

Now.

CHAPTER TWELVE

SCARLETT

Three hours earlier

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Istartle awake, hearingsomething in the house.I swear to god, if Cole has been out with the boys and had too much to drink...thinking he can use his emergency key to return for some more sexy stuff, I will—

The creak on the floor has my eyes darting to the doorway.Something isn’t right.I reach for my phone on the nightstand, and it knocks to the floor.

“Fuck,” I mutter.

I’m almost certain that I’m imagining the sounds and—

I’m not.

The door to my room bursts open, and two large, dark figures come flying in, yelling in a foreign language.

I scream.

They rip my body from the bed, and I kick and scream as panic fills every cell in my body.I drop onto the floor.

No.

The baby!

Oh my god.Please don’t go into labor.

Are they going to kill me?

Cole!

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