Chapter: CHAPTER 11ABIGEALBARELY A month ago, I was earnestly flipping through newspapers looking for a job that wouldn’t bore me out of my mind. That wouldn’t under stimulate me. Now here I was sitting on a guy’s back and pulling his leg backwards until he rapidly tapped the mat. I guess I got what I wanted.I got up and went to stand by the edge of the mat beside Abel while the guy lay on the mat panting before he got up and limped away, his head hung in defeat. “Girl, is there anything you aren’t good at?” Abel whispered.“Cooking.” I deadpanned.“Now that cheers me up, because I make a mean pecan pie.”“I do love pecan pie.”“Wait till you taste mine.” Abel said. The next match was called and Christa and another woman stepped onto the mat.“You know the rules. No weapons, no foul play. Good luck.” Warren drawled and the girls started to circle each other. Christa immediately went on attack, forcing the other woman to put her hands up. It didn’t look like she was slowing down anytime soon, leaving h
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Chapter: CHAPTER 10ABIGEALWHEN I got off the last obstacle a full ten seconds ahead of Abel, everyone’s eyes were on me. I was used to being stared at like I was a freak of nature, but it didn’t stop me from feeling uneasy. “Is there a problem?”Warren cleared his throat. “Miss Starr has set a record of finishing the gauntlet in 3 minutes and 48 seconds. Let’s see who’ll beat that.”Oh. The gauntlet? We’d had similar in the military and my division especially used to challenge each other on the obstacle course for fun. I could walk a balance beam with my eyes closed. The consequences for failure here were more extreme, but all I had to do was not consider failure as an option and I was good to go.“Superwoman.” Abel chuckled as we walked back to the line.“Shut up.”I crossed my arms and watched as the rest of the people went through the gauntlet, shook my head as I mentally assessed them.Poor form.Balance issues.Lots of hesitation.Lack of creativity.But who was I to judge?At the end of it, when
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Chapter: CHAPTER 9BLAINEAS SOON as I got back into the building, I spotted Jordan striding towards me and I braced myself for what was sure to come.“The fuck is she doing here? I thought we already discussed this.” He seethed as soon as he got to me, confirming my suspicions.“In my defense, it was a spur of the moment decision.” I said, putting my hands up. It was a lie. I knew what I was going to do when I traced her to her apartment. I don’t know why I felt drawn to her, but I knew I wanted to see her again.“She tried to kill you. That’s kind of what we’re trying to avoid, Blaine.” Jordan’s sarcasm was biting.“So have a dozen other people.”Jordan shook his head. “I am not going to let you make a terrible decision just because you want to get your dick wet.” He started to stride out.“You think that’s what this is?” I called after him. “She snuck weapons past our security and made it up to my office where I basically baited her. You think any of these other people here would have thought twice
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Chapter: CHAPTER 8ABIGEAL“HEY! SKINNY white girl!”I ignored the yell (pretty sure there were lots of skinny white girls here) and focused on driving my daggers hard enough into the cement to temporarily support my body wait. The poor things had little chance of surviving this. Their service would be remembered.“Hey, you! That’s cheating!”“Man, shut your whiny mouth. We weren’t given any rules now, where we?” A voice to my right responded. I risked a quick glance and found an incredibly fit guy with skin the color of coffee making his way up. He winked at me and continued to climb.We reached the top at the same time and came face to face with the barbed wire. Sweat trickled down my back as I hung from one hand and untied the jacket around my waist. I threw it over the wire and slid on top. The barbs poked through a little, but not enough to cut deep. I heard a clang and looked over to see the man had uprooted a whole section of the wire and was now holding it up with one hand as he sat on the fenc
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Chapter: CHAPTER 7ABIGEALEVERYTHING WAS going surprisingly well. I hadn’t even had to do much and my target had fallen right into my web. For a company that was touted to be the biggest and best, it was almost laughably easy to penetrate. I suppose large companies don’t have the time to really look into the smaller details. Oh well, works to my advantage.The bigger they are, the harder they fall.My target had given me a certain address and instructed me to be there at 8am, but out of habit I was up and about to leave by 6:00. I’d just zipped my duffel bag and sat down to lace up my boots when I heard a knock on the door. I went to open it and found Anna standing there holding a small bakery box.I had no intention of speaking with her. “Fuck off” I said and closed the door. “Abigeal, wait! I’m sorry.” she called through the wood.I ignored her. If everything continued to go well I wouldn’t need her around to pay the rent. And it should be good riddance; the girl was clumsy and her scattered nature
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Chapter: CHAPTER 6ABIGEALTHROUGH THE red haze of anger clouding my vision, I noted that my target’s initial shock had died down and he’d remained calm. This somehow made me angrier and I backed him into his desk, pressing my dagger into his throat until a small red line formed at the edge of the blade.“Give me one reason why I shouldn’t kill you right now,” I seethed.He didn’t take his eyes off mine as he replied, careful not to move too much. “If you really wanted to, you would have already. But your self-control is remarkable.”Wait. Wait a damn minute.“My self-control?”He had a sheepish look on his face. “I might have been testing your temperament a bit. If I thought I was in any real danger, all I had to do was press this button here.” He lifted a hand to show me the device in his palm. “And security would have come running. I think I’d have been dead by then, though. You don’t play around.” His eyes had the guts to twinkle in amusement.What sort of man compliments a person on how fast sh
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