tly as there was a b

focused and she came to the grim realization that

ed to the owner of the hand that pointed the gun at h

as goi

h her bedsheet. She had been wearing only

he gun at her. In her head lots of questions popped up that made

had brought this on, she jumped in fright as the man gestured to the

crambled to get her robe to at least keep h

she heard the sound of a pa

ought, breat

p mo

d her hands up in surrender and took one shaky step after another. Each step was punctuated

er life - a kind of fear that was truly

sure of the gun barrel on her, she met Alex's bloodie

n aiming weapons at him; one was ev

she mu

ooked at the men. "She ha

one of the men put a boot

scream at them but she knew

were the

they have to

g and writing around a meter having his face roughly stepped in. She saw a stream of blo

Maria struggled against the bag that was put over her face and scr

olding her, only to find hersel

realized she was in a car of some sort when

e sounds of Alex's groans that st

was feeling no

he was in trouble, but she didn't know how much. Now it seemed she had been pulled into this mess as

ave you done now

truly in d

.

oes clicking on the concrete floor, and wearing on

urned at the sound and stood up straighter, ou

e, instead staring at the bruised man

istic triumph coursing through his

from his target, he

a chorus of

n unison, marching out of the ware

they we

r at Alex with a

shran

ant sounding tone. "I have been waiting

pay you back, I swear. I can- I just-" he fell silent immediately, his words cut

stated with bite. "But what use have

regnant! Spare me!" Alex had te

hed him imp

d a gasp fro

cked eyes with her, kneeling at the

e not not

rolled out of bed. She was kneeling in her

she? Ale

ld figure it out,

arried through the hush o

d a brow

f nerve to demand

my only brother. I don't kno

cut h

into this, not me. He knows what he di

mien aimed a dangerous glare at him, a promise to exact m

tinued to plead. "I'll