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down my face, mixing with the dirt. "It's a family h

t to have it, but they had the opposite effect. Her mind, alr

cracking with fury. "He gave you his m

p off. With her other hand, she snatched the locket and tore it

promised me!" She stared at the locket in her palm as if it were a venomous snake. Then she

rously calm. "All of it. If you and your little bast

die? It's me. I need you at Northwood Park. Yes, no

r. A small-time criminal Graham ha

a, I'm begging you. Just look at him. He's a ch

ok a hesitant step forward. "Janna, maybe we shoul

ing at him. "Or I'll make sure you're emptying bed

ediately backed away, his face p

ody aching. "Janna, please. For the love of God, h

her face a mask of co

word was a s

I'm not raising some other woman's brat. I will not be a stepmother.

he denial tearing from my throat

d completely devoid of w

tain of a man got out. He was big, with a shaved head, crude tattoos snak

aze lingering on me with ope

with his arrival. "She's been trying to steal Gra

"She ain't much to look at." He smir

nder his brutish approval. She walked over to me, grabb

onster she called a brother. "Please, just sa

"You want me to save him?" she purred. "Alrigh

on your knees. And you're going to tell me, and my brother, and hi