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The Chase

Author: Bree
last update Last Updated: 2025-03-24 03:41:01

Ava’s POV

The tires screeched as Joe swerved to keep control of the car. My heart pounded so hard it drowned out everything else—the hum of the engine, Joe’s muttered curses, even the rumble of the pursuing SUV’s engine.

I twisted in my seat, craning my neck to look out the rear window. The black SUV was closing in, its headlights glaring like twin predators hunting in the night. My stomach churned as a sliver of memory clawed its way into my mind.

The night I was kidnapped.

When Joe had pulled the car around, I had seen a familiar figure—sitting at the passenger’s seat of the SUV. The person was dressed in all black, with a nose mask concealing most of his face and a cap pulled low over his eyes. I thought I’d imagined him. And maybe I did.

My throat tightened. There was something about him—his posture, the way his head had tilted ever so slightly when he saw me—that felt hauntingly familiar. My skin crawled as I replayed the scene of the kidnap in my mind.

It couldn’t be.
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