In the end, Vivian never made the jump.
Someone seized her wrist. Another grabbed her leg. More hands clawed at her from every direction, every face twisted with greed.
"Let go of me, sob!"
Terror consumed her. Pain tore through her limbs, dull and crushing, as though her body were being ripped apart. Tears streamed uncontrollably as despair threatened to swallow her whole.
Then suddenly, someone burst in with a group of men behind him. The chaos ended almost at once.
Vivian was shoved into a car. She sat there in stunned silence, barely able to process that she had survived yet again until the man beside her snatched her phone from her pocket and hurled it out the window.
That jolted her back to herself.
"Adrian, what are you doing?"
"I just saved you, Vivian."
She knew she shoul
