89

89. RESCUED?

~PAMELA

I was at the mercy of unknown men who just killed Stephan Delmundo.

The hands that gripped me were strong and vise-like. I was too distraught to fight back when the men in identical leather jackets with a bold emblem of a black flowing river emblazoned on the back and chest.

They grabbed me as soon as Stephan's Audi erupted into a fiery blast and knocked me to the floor. I could still feel the heat as the shock wave crashed into me. It felt so surreal that we were in the car moments ago.

Although unwanted, the scene played over and over in my head as I reluctantly recalled how the blast had thrown Stephan up in the air and far across the parking lot.

He had even been on fire by the time that I was whisked away. I had been screaming at the top of my lungs as the unknown men dragged me into their vehicle. I was numb throughout the ride to the destination.

My mind was already on the forbidden subject that I tried so hard to ignore but it gnawed relen