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MAEL

I drove like a man obsessed because that was what I was.

She ran away from me.

From me.

And into the fucking arms of the last man she should have run to.

She wouldn’t have done that if she knew everything, and now it was too fucking late. She was in his grasp, and I didn’t fucking know where he had hidden her.

I love you.

Her whispered words ran through my mind over and over again.

If she loved me, then why the fuck did she run away?

And I was fucking stupid enough not to act on my gut feeling that something was fucking wrong when I came over to her apartment that night. My fists tightened around the wheel. Lia got a head start.

It was only a couple of hours later when I decided to check in on her and realized something was fucking wrong, but it was a couple of hours she managed to use to her advantage.

And she fucking had help.

I pulled up to a factory on the outskirts of town, not dissimilar to the one I had been trapped in before.

Leo didn’t hide Lia here. I knew that much.

I still didn’t know what that fucker wanted with my girl, but it wasn’t to start her working here. Not like he did with Theo and me.

But I intended to find out. I intended to find her. And when I did, I was never letting her go.