I need a new face.

CHAPTER SIXTYSCARLETT'S POVLogan: I'm not wiring anything to a number I can't verify. If you want the money, we can meet in person. You name the place.I read it three times before it fully registered in my mind.In person? He wanted to actually see me, or whoever he thought was on the other end of this line, face to face.My stomach dropped straight through the floor of my apartment.I typed a response quickly. That’s not how this works.But I deleted it. I started typing again. I’ll take a wire transfer only.I ended up deleting that too. It sounded too weak and obviously dodging the request. If I refused outright, he'd start questioning whether the threat was even real, whether the whole thing had been a bluff he could just ignore. And I couldn't afford that. Not after everything I'd built with him, the trust, the dependency, all of it collapsing the second he decided I was disposable to him too.I needed to stay in control of this. I needed to not react to his terms and set my

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CHAPTER SIXTY-ONERILEY'S POVFour days. That's how long I had let his voicemail sit unanswered, I hovered my thumb over his name every time I opened my phone and never once pressing the call button.Last night, whileI was lying awake at three in the morning, I finally admitted the truth to myself. I wasn't waiting for him to explain anymore. I was tired of waiting, period.If he wasn't going to tell me the truth, I would go and find it myself.I opened my laptop at Maya's kitchen table and typed "Eli Ford marriage record" into a public records search site. I reached a few dead ends at first.But later on I found a filing reference number and a county name two states over. It didn’t have enough detail online to confirm anything solid so I needed to go in person.The county records office was smaller than I expected when I arrived. It had fluorescent lighting, a line of exactly two people ahead of me, and a clerk behind the counter who looked like she'd rather be anywhere else on ear

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Everything is ready.

CHAPTER SIXTY-TWOSCARLETT'S POVPriya's studio smelled like latex and hairspray, tucked into the back of a warehouse space she rented cheaply because most of her neighbors didn't ask questions about the hours she kept."Sit," she said, gesturing to a chair angled under a ring light. "This is going to take a few hours, so get comfortable."I sat and she circled me once, studying my face like she was already breaking it down into pieces."Okay, talk me through the look again. You said you wanted someone older, rougher, and with brown eyes.""Yeah right. Mid-forties, maybe. Someone who's clearly done things she's not proud of.""I love that description, it’s very specific." She grabbed a bin of pre-molded pieces off a shelf. "I've got a few base shapes that'll work for the bone structure shift. We'll build the jawline out here and widen the nose bridge slightly, because that alone changes recognition more than people think.""Whatever gets the job done fastest.""The fastest and the mos

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Careful, I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.

CHAPTER SIXTY-THREELOGAN'S POVRenny had the cash waiting when I walked in, a duffel bag sitting on the workbench next to a half-disassembled engine."Fifty thousand dollars," he said, sliding it toward me. "That's all I could pull together this fast. The rest will take longer, if you still want it after tonight.""Fifty's not two hundred.""I know what fifty is, Logan. I also know what three days is. Take it or don't.""I need it.""Then take it." He crossed his arms. "You gonna tell me what this is actually about, or are we still doing the whole tight-lipped thing?""Still doing that.""Figured." He shook his head. "You look like hell, man. Whoever's got their hook in you, it's bad.""I'll manage.""Yeah, well. Managing and surviving aren't always the same thing." He gestured at the bag. "Count it if you want. It's all there.""I trust you.""You shouldn't trust anybody right now, from the sound of it." He said it half-joking, but part of the expression on his face stayed serious.

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All Chapters of Crossing The Blue Line: His Forbidden Puck Bunny: Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

I need a new face.

You're showing.

Everything is ready.

Careful, I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.