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“Just keep your mouth shut and I won’t hurt you,” whispered Dwayne, covering my mouth with his calloused hand as he pulled me into the darkness.
Although I’d lost my gun during our scuffle, he had no idea what he’d started. Weapon or not, there was no way I’d go down without a struggle. In fact, I’d purposely allowed him take me outside and away from the church, as I figured kicking someone's ass in a holy place had to be sacrilegious.
I nodded, trying to appear scared and as unthreatening as possible. The truth was, after everything I’d been through, I figured I could handle this with my eyes closed.
He dragged me around the church, and that's when he made his first mistake.
He released me.
I turned to face him. “What do you want?”
“Just to talk,” he said, but th
