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Matt didn’t “Let’s all calm down We only want to make sure Kimmie is okay You can understand that, can’t you?” He’s stalling Sean et Carl

“I understand oddaun now or I’ll blow her brains out You’d like to join your daddy, wouldn’t you, Jena?”

Fu and slammed her heel into his toes and shoved her elbow into his stomach

Carl’s grip loosened

A gun fired from their left

She turned around and saw the fucker fall to the sidewalk, blood pouring out of his head

She bolted to room seven “Kimmie?”

“Mommy?”

She lifted her little girl into her arh tears of relief “I’m here, baby Mommy is here”

Chapter Sixteen

Jena held her ers It was so hard to see her in a hospital bed with an IV and an oxygen tube in her nose Sean was in the recliner with a sleeping Kiet coffee

Her two guys had won her daughter over quickly, re her about her birthday Jena knew it had only been a way to distract her fro on outside the motel roo five years old had soes

God, she loved Matt and Sean They’d made sure that Kimmie didn’t come out of the motel room until Carl’s body was removed

What a night Carl was no longer a threat to her and Kimmie He was dead Her mother’s condition was stable It was clear to everyone on the scene that her ht The fucker had broken her mother’s nose and both her wrists, but the worst of the lot was the knife wound in her stoe The procedure was a success

The surgeon entered the room, which pleased Jena It was late, but the doctor wasn’t rushing He had her mom’s chart in his hand He looked at the monitor and took a couple of notes