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A whole week went by and Tulsi only saw the outside world through the windows of the hotel room. Putnam, it turned out, wasn’t as easy to break as Baines wanted him to be.
From what she’d gleaned, from eavesdropping on conversation, and the tidbits Baines had given her in the sickening moments he stole alone with her, Putnam was being left to stew. The point was to break him. Whatever they’d done in the first couple of days hadn’t worked, so they’d moved onto ignoring him.
Rowdy and Kieran still had to use the bathroom Putnam was locked up in, as did the other guys in that room, but their prisoner was just ignored.
Baines was about to lose the plot. His irritation level was rising so high that Tulsi knew it wouldn’t take much for him to snap. The man wasn’t exactly the most sta
