Rebirth of the naive maid
One clenched her mangled arm, eyes wide with disbelief, while the other, Jane, stared at the ruined gun, her face twisted in a snarl.
Junior raced down to me.
"Daddy," the sound muffled in his mouth as he cried.
I ripped the duct tape off his mouth with a swift, merciful motion, waving him back with my free hand as I growled, "Stay behind me, now!" My eyes never left Jane, the gun still trained on her, its muzzle a promise of more pain if she dared to move. Martha, meanwhile, was lost in her own private hell, her life ebbing away in a sticky, crimson pool that spread like dark wings across the floor. Her breathing was a wet, labored grawl, each gasp a desperate attempt to hold on, but it was
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