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Chapter 17

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Her bare feet pounded against the grass, then the gravel, then the rough asphalt of the country road. Stones cut into her soles, but she barely felt the pain. Adrenaline was a powerful anesthetic. She ran until her lungs burned and her legs screamed and the villa was nothing but a dark shape behind her.

A car was coming.

She saw the headlights cutting through the twilight and waved her arms frantically, stumbling into the middle of the road. "Please! Please stop! Help me!"

The car slowed. A sle
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