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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “DARK, DIRTY, AND EDGY CONTEMPORARY MYSTERY”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Not your usual story of boy meets girl”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Hold your breath and get ready for a great ride!”
‘“What’s your name?”
His voice sounds like it’s coming from a distance. I register it but at the same time I don’t.
He shakes me mildly. “You. Got a name?”
Coughing, I come to a little. “M-Mia.” I turn my head but can’t see his face and stare over his shoulder instead, at the kitchen counter, struck by the irony of how it can look so normal even when everything has gone to hell.
“Mia. You know mine, then?”
I answer with a whimper. He sighs and turns me around, taking half a step back. “No kicking, Mia,” he says in his gravelly voice. His grip around my wrists is so hard that my hands have begun to feel numb. He shakes me again. “Hey. Snap out of it!”
I swallow hard and look at him. “Please, don’t hurt me,” I whisper.
He opens his mouth as if to say something, then he sighs. His hands are ice cold. He’s still wet, his lips still tinted blue and water drops glitter in his beard and hair.
“Come here.” He pulls me toward him and starts backing out of the kitchen. When we get back out into the living room, I see Jack flat on the floor, submissive, only his eyes moving as they follow us. My beast of a dog has met an even bigger beast.’
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