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Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

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She straddled me, her knee rubbing my wound, but I didn’t

care. I took her in my arms and kissed her lips, her forehead,

her cheek…

But then I shook her a little. “Hey, you left me,” I bit out.

“I came right back,” she said, her hands over mine. “I’m

sorry. Michael was bringing me back, and that’s when we saw

you being taken.”

She climbed off me and put her hands on me, helping me

up.

“Are you…” She stopped, feeling my clothes. “This is wet.

Are you bleeding?”

“How did you get in?” I demanded, ignoring her question

and gritting my teeth against the pain as I stood up from the

bed.

“When we saw what happened, we got everyone together.

Banks told us there was crawl space in the wall, from the

cellar to the attic.” She took my arm. “She’s downstairs with

Michael and Kai, distracting your father.”

“The attic’s across the roof.” I took us toward the

bathroom, knowing now how she got in. “You climbed across

the roof?”

Jesus, fuck. And I was worried about getting to her before

my father did.

She could’ve died. How could they be so stupid to bring

her?

“Rika’s outside your bathroom window,” she said in a

hushed voice. “Would you shut up now?”

Fine. She was already here. Damage was done. I’d deal

with them later.

Walking into the bathroom, I shot a glance to my bedroom

door behind me, making sure it was still closed and no one

was onto us.

I stepped on top of the toilet, seeing the small window

already propped up and Rika crouched down on the roof,

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