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CHAPTER 67

Author: Angela Ray
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-27 21:02:20

A Deal with the Devil

Damian's POV

The next morning, I barely touched my coffee. It sat on the kitchen counter, steaming weakly, like it didn't want to be there either.

Leo stood a few feet away and rubbed the back of his neck. He looked at the digital map on his laptop screen with his eyebrows pulled low. “I tried tracing the image software again,” he stated. "Nothing. The person who sent that picture got rid of all the loopholes.”

I nodded, but I didn't pay attention. My mind was back to that thought that grainy picture again, with Eliot's head bowed on the loose rope just visible near the corner of the frame. I imagined him cold, afraid, maybe hurt. Maybe worse.

The silence between Leo and I stretched like an old rubber band, tight and ready to snap.

Finally, I spoke. “We’re out of time.”

Leo gave me a mean look. “You’re not thinking of going to the police, are you? That could get Eliot killed.”

I shook my head. “Not the police.”

“Then what?" he asked, his normally composed face
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