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Tess wrinkled her nose at the odor of fuel. On the floor in the rear of the van, with her hands bound behind her, she recalled this wasn’t the first she time she’d landed in a difficult situation. She felt little comfort in the knowledge that Malachi wouldn’t kill her, or allow any of his men to do so, because, according to her captor, the reward would only be given if she were delivered alive. What happened to her after that, Malachi said he didn’t know and didn’t care. She believed him. As an accomplished sociopath with the fame that rode alongside all he had done, she had no reason to doubt him when he told her the bounty was all that mattered to him.
Her mind never strayed far from Sebastian. She guessed the number of hours she’d been held by Malachi and the length of time since s
