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Author: Enn
last update publish date: 2026-02-01 07:24:23

August's POV

The spare bedroom that I occupied in this new house was way smaller than my bedroom in Chicago, and even the hotel I stayed in for a month after arriving in Florida. But in a matter of two days since I moved in, I had managed to transform the room, even a tad bit.

I was stretched across my bed the next morning, scrolling half-heartedly through my phone, when a knock came at my door. I didn’t answer fast enough because it opened anyway.

Dona appeared at the door, drowning in a ho
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    Peter's POV Pensacola Street was quiet at this hour, which was the only thing going right for me tonight. I walked fast with my head down and my hood pulled up, my eyes cutting left and right every few steps. The last thing I needed was to run into anyone who knew my face, battered as it was. I was going to make August pay for that. I was going to make all of them pay, including the McNair bitches! The white sedan I was meant to meet was parked halfway down the block where I'd told her to wait, and the engine was off. I could see the shape of the woman behind the wheel through the glass. I knocked on the passenger window and waited. I heard the clicks of the locks from inside, and then I yanked the door open and dropped into the seat. "You're annoying, do you know that?" Linda Henderson yelled at me before I'd even pulled the door shut. "I have been sitting on this street for almost one hour, waiting for your tardy ass. I was two minutes away from driving off and never looking b

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    Samantha's POV It gave me some satisfaction that the cell that Russell was in was small and poorly lit. There was nothing but a single bulb overhead that cast everything in a dull yellow wash. Russell was sitting on the bench inside it with his back against the wall and his arms hanging loose over his knees. He'd stripped down to a white sleeveless undershirt and his jeans, and the shirt was soaked through with sweat, clinging to his chest and sides. He looked nothing like the terrifying man who had walked into my office and grabbed my throat. He looked tired and small and cornered. So very good. He looked up when we filed in, and his eyes moved over each of us slowly, taking stock. Dona got there first. She walked right up to the bars and folded her arms and looked at him the way one would look at something unpleasant they found on the bottom of their shoe. "Just so you know," she said pleasantly, "you're not getting your fifty thousand dollars anymore." Russell said nothing.

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    Samantha's POV I kept my eyes on the road and my phone propped against the dashboard where I could see Dona's location blinking on the screen. A small blue dot, moving. As long as it kept moving, she was alive, and I was going to keep telling myself that. "She's okay, Sammy," Marisol said from the passenger seat. "August is with her, and you know that boy will not let anything happen to her." "I know." I replied, even though my hands were still holding on to the wheel like a lifeline. "Then calm down. You're going to snap that steering wheel in half." Marisol urged me I loosened my grip a little and sighed. The road ahead was dark and long, and my headlights cleared a path through it in two pale beams. I had been driving for almost forty minutes now, chasing a blue dot across my phone screen like it was the only thing tethering me to sanity. And it was. "You should also be worried about your own daughter," I told Marisol. "Piper is out there too." "Of course I'm worried about m

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