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Chapter 136 Betrayal

Author: Day Torres
Lucy couldn't say she wasn't scared—though she was just as impressed. The commotion inside the precinct was overwhelming.

Claudia had told her it would be easy: a bit of drama, a lot of money, and they just had to wait until Alexandra and Scott were desperate enough to agree once the ransom call came. But she had never, not even in her worst-case scenario, imagined that Interpol would be involved.

She saw the officers gearing up and remembered those words, "We move in half an hour."

That meant she had a thirty-minute head start. She hurried the receptionist to return her belongings but didn't turn on her phone—just in case.

She got into the first taxi she found and gave the address of a bakery on the outskirts of the city. From there, she walked a couple of blocks and grabbed another cab that took her deeper into the suburbs. Three times she switched taxis, hoping to throw off anyone who might be following. What she didn't know was that the people trailing her weren't the kind
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