The thick wool carpet of the mast

m-tailored suit jacket on the floo

bathroom was cracked open. Thick, h

vy condensation, she saw a massive, shadowy

the shad

peed. A large, heavily calloused hand shot ou

sed her right arm, bringing the ce

-air. He grabbed her wrist

n's spine slammed hard against the freezing bathroom

rom her numb fingers. It cl

dshot eyes. The man's jaw was clenched tight, his che

reathing was ragged, animalistic. Aspen recognized the symptom

d his head, his hot breath ghosting

ught her right knee up and drov

ed his grip on her wrist to lo

pull herself up. She wrapped both of her legs tightly around his thick neck. Her inner t

ifugal force of a perfect scissor kick, praying

wet tiles. He crashed hard onto his back

ised her right hand, stiffening her index and middle fingers into a rigid spear. With brutal precision, she struck the bundle of nerves just below his collarbone, then immediately drove her knuckles into the vagus nerve on the side of his neck. Kasey gasped, his eyes flying wide open as a shockwave of localized paralysis short-circu

ody convulse

om his skin. The wild, predatory glaze in his eyes

fectly still on the wet floor, starin

nstead, the corner of his mouth slowl