hotel key card. Her brain

Her shoulder blades slammed hard against

violently. She shook her head. "No, that's

ard, trapping her completely in the narrow alcove. His massive stom

hat a Series C funding contract can't buy," Mortimer sneer

gical wall shattered into dust. P

squeeze through the small gap between Mortimer's a

about the overs

er right ankle twisted violently. A

ed. His thick hand shot out and grab

ckward with

p was being ripped off her skull. The sheer force of

hard. Her elbow slammed into the wall, sending

The thrill of the hunt, the excitement of her res

bed her bare ankle. He began to drag h

versized high heel on her left foot flew of

rame of the hallway. Her fingernails dug into the wood so hard tha

d at the top of her l

c in the main room surged, a deafening drop in the tr

raised his thick, meaty hand and br

ac

lie's head snapped to the side. Her ears rang violently. The metall

grip on the doorframe loosened. Mortimer yank

er thighs, pinning her to the floor. His hand

pping fabric was the sound of her doom. Elie squeezed her eyes s

e from the main room. It sounded like a

ay was abruptly blocked by a towe

dress. He looked over his shoulder, his face twist

ather oxford shoe shot out from t

ed squarely with the s

ick lifted his two-hundred-and-fifty-pound body completely off Elie

e gasped for air, clutching the torn pieces of her

f the hallway. He looked like a de

His chest heaved, and his eyes were a terrifying, bloodthirs

r's expensive shirt. With a terrifying display of raw strengt