sharp, stabbing pain shot through h

's fake smile, the cold stares of the Wyatt family, the humilia

le, trembling hands-hands that had never held a gun or snapped a neck. For a brief, surreal second, the name 'Lin' echoed like a ghost

He jerked his chin at Cletus, ordering him to g

, muttering curses under his breat

t his dirty hand to rip the sil

brushed her cold skin

, pressing perfectly on the pulse point to numb his arm. He was off-balance, crouching, expecting

his mouth to yell, Eliza used his arm

own body, she twisted violently to the right. It was a textbook ground-fighting sub

ell. Cletus's cervical spine snapped. He coll

m above. They yelled Cletus's name,

ched into Cletus's pocket and pulled out his s

ured ribs. She couldn't overpower two armed men with o

arm. She pressed her back flat against the concrete load-b

Dwayne crept down the stair

ody water. Both men gasped, cursing and

ar. Eliza launched herself from th

Her right hand drove the switchblade across h

hoved Dwayne's dying body forward, sending him

rror. He swung his knife wi

c blade. She slammed the heavy handle of her switc

d and dropped

ashed upward, cleanly severing the tendons in his

ng in the rain. He looked up at Eliza as

There was zero human warmth in her eyes,

teeth and her left hand to tie her fractured right arm tig

ed through the storm. Someone in the

dy was failing. She had

g body. She walked out into the f

ooked up at the winding mountain road in the distan