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laughed–bow bough that m
e bough that quickly finssired ints tears streaming down my face.
All this time
suited they förre somehow under tiley’s riminal, that their minds had been manipolated into burning againd me.||
I’d even heated, wondering if this won’t really their true nature if there might be a very in reduce them to their former selves, if I could somehow forgive them when they returned termal ||
mit this was the complete truth.
How dare they speak to me this way? How could they possibly blame me?)
“No wonder you tren know nothing about business, I shot back. “You were just ordinary people before your rebirth, weren’t you? You stole my real parese bodies and enjoyed their humim Westyle. After my grandfather died, I was the one who kept the company from bankruptcy, I made your lives better! Everything 1 have, learned. Tove you nothing–especially not Bike Toure the real thieves herer”
Ired to Mason, my voice shaking i
Wnd your’re no different. You reed the best education money could buy, groomed to be elite–resources you never had in your previous life. I understand your feelings for Kiley, hot what did 1 do wrong in all this? How can you forture me out of sympathy for her? Where are your values Your conscience? You’re worse than animals
Try the end, I was ach bind with tears and fury||
Te they showed no remorse. Instead, their faces wasted with hatred as they moved toward me
“some your twisted lag. Nothing you say matters mon!“”
Your here ferer. Calloway Industries belongs to our Riley now.“]
she’ll run the company better than you ever did. Our family of four can fly be together.”
“You wont get to tell anyone about this, because we’ll make sure you never speak again.
Mas delivered the final hddenly grabbing my throat.
“One single drug and you’d be mate forever. Simple, knit That say, keep Riley’s secret”
please don’t…” My desperate pleas grew weaker as his grip lightened.
In the distance, a sound gradually grew louder the unmistakable wall of police stress.[]
Maotic expressioa darkened ||
Teller? How the hell did they frul up?”
Gering any genuine conducian, they all relaxed slightly
idrare. Chas been with us the whole time. She couldn’t have rated Gam”||
Häny i face suddenly changed ||
“The silage boy! That Wille brant the atas alone with hint |]
this reversation. Intrenched myself free from Masan’s grip and hobed toward the door:[]
My shoes were long gone. Sharp rocka pod thin
cui into way bare feet, sending jolla of agony through my entire body.||
Bored win ricape,||
dirte? Einthe one who called–migår
pit as I was about to reach the police’s line of sight, a hood camped over my mouth, slamming tus into the ground ||
This time, Moon wait holding back, i
andh comhed my windpipe with anu derous intem, determined to sürece me permanently
Tould hear the police approaching, but the suffocating piece made a impossible to breathe, let alone call out. My vision began to darken as I fought desperately for
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Such hatred fled in such bitter, burning hatred
Let her go now or we || sheet“|||
suddenly, the ummudskable set of puns being corked and a commanding voice hese through my fading concimmer
Mason looked up his strangling grip faltering ||
The presence on my thron released. I clutched my neck, coughing violently as air rushed back into my hings||
a ferade uffiers helped me to my feet. The sight of her form brought tears to my eyes between desperate gaps
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