Scars of Love,Flames of Betrayal
“I’m going as fast as I can without getting pulled over.”
“What do you think he wants? What could he possibly ask for that’s worth all this?”
“I don’t know. But whatever it is, I’ll give it to him. Money, my business, my life. Anything.”
“What if it’s not about what you’ll give? What if it’s about what he’ll take?”
The thought made my blood run cold.
We pulled onto Maple Street forty-five minutes later, the landscape changing from residential to industrial wasteland. Abandoned buildings lined both sides of the street, their windows broken, walls covered in graffiti, weeds growing through cracked pavement.