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2025-04-05 18:00:48Leah's POV
Brad’s blood smelled like rust and regret. It pooled beneath my boots, seeping into the cracks of the warehouse floorboards as I circled him. The ropes binding him to the chair creaked - not from his struggling anymore, but from the tremors running through his body. Fear had a way of making even meaty men like him brittle.
"You're wasting my time," I said, dragging the tip of a fish knife along the edge of a frozen cod. The screech split the air like a promise. "Twenty years. Twenty years you let that rot fester. And now you think shaky denials will save you?"
He jerked his chin up, sweat gluing his collar to his throat. "I know who you are... You're the girl who was with Liam earlier this morning..."
"That's not an answer to my question." I backhanded him. The crack of my hand against his cheekbone echoed louder than his whimper. A tooth skittered across the floor. Clink, clink, clink. Music to my ear.
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