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Chapter 51: I Did Everything You Asked.

Author: Charis Jackson
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-06-25 16:17:27

Reeves.

The bourbon was two fingers and going warm.

I left it on the desk and picked up the phone.

"Move him tonight," I said when the line connected. "There's a property outside Elgin. I'll send the address in twenty minutes." I looked out the window. The woods outside were doing nothing. "Keep him breathing."

The line went dead.

I sent the address and put the phone down and picked up the bourbon.

It had gone past warm into something else. I drank it anyway.

Gerald was next. Now people would s
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