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Mia’s eyes were starting to sting. Just the image of Lauren limping, half–deaf, was enough to make her chest feel like it was being stabbed over and over.
She inhaled deeply, trying to pull herself together.
“What’s the point of all this now? If you really feel guilty, then go die. That’s the only way you’re ever making this right.” And with zero hesitation, she kicked Kenneth again, hard, then turned and walked off without a second thought.
Kenny stood up from the couch and walked over to the guy crumpled on the floor. He looked down with cold indifference and said, “If you actually gave a damn about her, you should’ve acted like it. You brought this on yourself.”
Then he hurried after Mia. “Mia, where are you going?”
“None of your business. Don’t follow me,” she shot back, not even turning around.
“It’s not safe at night. Let me at least-”
Mia whipped around mid–stride. “I’m in a crap mood right now. If you don’t wanna get punched, stay the heck away. I’ll be your girlfriend again tomorrow.”
And just like that, she walked out of the bar without a single ounce of hesitation.
The night breeze was cool against Mia’s skin as she stood outside the bar, looking completely drained and emotionally numb.
Out of nowhere, a black luxury car rolled up and came to a stop out front.
The doors opened, and a man in a sharp suit stepped out alongside an elegant, anxious–looking woman.
The man was Kenneth’s dad–Brendan. Serious and stiff as ever.
The woman was his mom, Brielle–put–together, pretty, but clearly worried.
They rushed straight toward the bar, obviously there to find Kenneth.
But just before they could get inside, a woman suddenly stepped out of nowhere and blocked their way.
“Step aside,” Brendan said, voice clipped and annoyed.
The woman didn’t move. Instead, she gave him a twisted half–smile, her eyes dark and cold. “Mr. Brendan, you already forgot me? That’s a shame. I’ve been dying to see you again ever since I got out of prison.”
Brendan froze. His eyes narrowed as he looked her over more closely.
She was maybe mid–thirties, dressed simple, but the long scar slashed across her face made her impossible to forget.
The look in her eyes was pure danger–this wasn’t someone you crossed lightly.
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just walked up to greet them.
She’d gone to prison not long after Lauren had.
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She couldn’t hold her own in the business world, so the lashed on–days cong trable for ber competition. One day, she snapped and stabbed someone during, a heated fyht. Full–on attached a person with a knife in broad daylight. That earned her 20 years behind bars.
She wasn’t supposed to be out yet.
But once she got locked up, the Gray family found her. They made her an offer–mire Lauren’s life a nightmare, and they’d pull strings to shave years off her sentence.
And she did exactly that. From then on, prison became hell on Earth for Lauren.
It wasn’t just this woman beating her senseless. Other inmates–bought and paid for by David, Sharon, and Willow–joined in. Constant abuse, constant cruelty, Lauren never stood a chance.
Now this woman was out. And she’d come looking for the Grays,
Brendan looked like he was about to throw up. He stumbled back a step like she was some wild animal
Brielle gasped and covered her mouth, terror filling her eyes. “Wh–what do you want?”
The woman’s smirk widened as she slowly closed the gap between her and Brendan, her energy radiating something dark and dangerous.
“What do I want?” she said with a sneer. “Mr. Brendan, you really are something. Forget your old friends already?” She jabbed her finger against his chest. “I did your dirty work while I was locked up. Now that I’m out, I think it’s time you paid up.
Brendan scowled. “We already helped you. We got your sentence reduced.”
She let out a cold laugh. Her scar twisted with her smile, making her look like something straight out of a nightmare. “A reduced sentence? That little favor doesn’t even come close. I got out with nothing–not a cent to my name. I’m not asking for much. Just 140,000 dollars and I’m gone. I’ll disappear from Hoverdale,
Back when the Gray family was still on top, 140,000 dollars would’ve been nothing to them.
But now that Felix had gutted the company, Gray Corp was falling apart. The cash flow was dead, the debts were piling up, and everything was hanging by a thread.
There was no way Brendan could just pull that kind of money out of thin air.
Brielle snapped. “This is extortion. We could call the cops on you.”
The woman threw her head back and laughed. “Go ahead. You send me back to prison, I’ll blow the lid off our whole deal. Every dirty little secret.”
Brendan went pale as a sheet. If she spilled the truth, he’d be ruined–publicly, professionally, maybe even legally.
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The woman’s grin turned smug. “Relax. I didn’t claw my way out of prison just to cause more trouble. I just want to live out the rest of my life in peace.”
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