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Chapter 132: Liam
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 132: Liam
Chapter 132: LiamThe first thing Liam noticed was that she'd stopped pulling at the door handle.The second was that it hadn't made him feel better."There's water in the console," he said. "And a granola bar, if you want it. It's from the airport. I can't promise it isn't stale."Liora didn't answer. She sat with her knees drawn up and her borrowed vest still strapped over her coat, looking out the passenger window at a field going by in pieces. There was a smear of Tomas's blood on her sleeve, dark and drying. She hadn't wiped it off.He kept his eyes on the road. He was good at that. Six years of following a woman across two cities had taught him exactly how long a man could look at the back of someone's head before it counted as a crime."You locked me in," she said finally."I did.""You said you were a coward.""I am. That was a very cowardly thing to do. I could have let you run back into a firefight, and I'd have felt better about myself right up until the moment someone shot
Scent of Obsession Chapter 131: Damien
Chapter 131: DamienHe called her name eleven times before Victor got a hand on him.Damien knew it was eleven because he'd been counting, the same way he counted everything when his head stopped working. Eleven times at the gate, then he was through it and running, and the treeline came up and he went into it with no plan and nothing in his hands but a gun he'd forgotten he was holding."Damien.""She's in there.""Damien, stop."Victor had him by the back of the jacket. Damien turned and hit him, a sloppy shot that caught Victor across the cheekbone and did nothing at all. Victor didn't hit back. He took the arm and folded it behind Damien and walked him two steps into an oak, not hard, and held him there with his forearm across his shoulder blades."Listen to me. Listen. You go in there alone, they have two targets in the trees instead of one.""Get off me.""No.""Get off me, Victor.""No." His breath was ragged against Damien's ear. "I've done this. I did it for seven years in a
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 129: Standoff
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 128: Second Wave
Chapter 128: Second WaveThe radio said "go" and Damien went.Sabine was ahead of him with her bad arm tucked against her ribs and a pistol in the good hand, and two of Sorokin's men flanked them so close he could smell their sweat. The east wall came up fast. Somebody had already thrown a ladder over it. Damien got a boot on the third rung, felt his shirt snag on the stone, tore it loose, and dropped into gravel on the other side.The compound was louder than he'd expected. He'd pictured a quiet building with a few shots in it. This was a courtyard with a dead man in it, another one groaning against a fountain, and a car burning at the far gate, black smoke leaning sideways across everything."Left," Sabine said. "Stay on my shoulder, not in front of it.""I know.""You don't. Stay behind my shoulder."He stayed behind her shoulder.They went through the service door Victor had breached. The corridor beyond it had a body in it that Damien stepped over without looking at the face, and
Scent of Obsession chapter 127 part 2
"Victor." Her voice broke on his name, cracked clean down the middle.He crossed the room without deciding to, and then she was in his arms, solid and shaking and alive, his hand fisted in the back of her shirt hard enough to hurt and neither of them caring, her face pressed into his shoulder like she was checking he was real by feel alone."You're here," she said, muffled, disbelieving. "You're actually here.""I'm here." His voice had gone to pieces, and he didn't try to fix it. There wasn't time to fix it, and there wasn't a version of himself he wanted to perform right now anyway. He pulled back just far enough to look at her properly older around the eyes, harder in a way seven years had carved into her, unmistakably, impossibly hers and felt something in his chest that had been clenched shut for years finally give way all at once."I have so much to say to you," he said, rough, pressing his forehead briefly to hers. "I don't have the time to say any of it right now, and I hate t
Scent of Obsession Chapter 4: Rested
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 3: The Second Night
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 2: The Contract
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