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Sophia
I was a pawn. Dorn, the fucker, wanted me dead because I’d accidentally seen too much. I was the loose thread that was ruining his carefully hidden life as a member of the VSS. This entire f****d-up situation was just like what happened back home with the Corellis. They’d given me no choice but to smuggle for them. I knew their faces, knew their crimes—my crimes—and could put them all away.
To keep me from identifying them, I’d been the one turned in to the FBI, the one who’d been caught red-handed, found guilty and sentenced to prison. Not them. It didn’t matter that I’d been innocent of everything but wanting to save my mother’s life. Once I’d taken the money for my mother’s medical treatment, they’d owned me. Used me. And when my mother was gone, they’d held my own life, my
