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in one of my boots. The other boot would house a knife that I had every intention of using on my enemy. The first thing I needed to do was go down to the lobby and confront the little shit who had put my woman in danger.
    I zipped my leather jacket up halfway to conceal the firearm I carried and made my way to the elevator. I could already feel the adrenaline pumping through my system, but this time, it was due to anger and not excitement. I was pissed and anybody who had been in on having my woman kidnapped was going down. Today.
    I exited the elevator and headed straight for the little shit who was working the desk. I reached over the counter squeezed my hand around his throat and pulled him halfway up onto the counter forcing him to look me in the eye.
    “Motherfucker, I want to know where that bastard took Laura, and you’ve got one chance to tell me something I want to hear.”
    “I don’t know man, he didn’t tell me where he was taking her. He just rolled her out of here in a suitcase.”
    “And you let him?” I growled, as my fist connected with his nose shattering it into a mass of blood and busted up cartilage. Normally I would have stayed to watch him scream out in pain but I didn’t have time for that right now. I was glad that the lobby had emptied out and there were no witnesses.
    The heavy thud of my boots could be heard as I made my way down to the parking garage. I had no choice but to go and stakeout Mark’s place of employment. Having to sit on a stakeout wasn’t something I cared to do right now, because it meant that it would take time to get the information I needed, and right now, time was not on my side.
    There was no question this guy had plans to kill the woman I loved. The only question that remained was whether or not I would be able to get to her before he did.
    I made my way to Bradley Enterprises. This was one of the hardest things I could ever remember having to do. For a man who is accustomed to being in control, waiting was not something I did well, especially when the life of my woman was in another man’s hands.



Chapter Sixteen
    Laura
    I lifted my head as I eyed Mark standing over me with a syringe. “Please, no more drugs. I don’t want any more drugs.”
    “If you think that I am going to deal with your crazy agoraphobic ass without you being drugged you are wrong.”
    “Why are you doing this? Haven’t you done enough to me?”
    “Well let’s just say that you’re worth more dead than alive. I have to go into work and I need you drugged while I go.”
    I felt the prick of a needle as he hit a vein and a warm euphoric feeling washed over me. I liked whatever he had given me. I hated the fact that it felt good to be high—in fact it felt so good—that the fact that I was chained in a warehouse and at a crazy man’s mercy didn’t even bother me.
    My mind drifted off to Miller and I knew he would be looking for me. I also knew that he would kill Mark when he got his hands on him. It wasn’t a matter of if, only a matter of when. A smile spread over my face when I thought about Miller unleashing his sadistic tendencies on my captor. I dreamed about my rescue and the man who had fulfilled the fantasies that had once been the voyeuristic meanderings of a caged soul. I was now a woman who was free to experience the sexual fantasies that’d held me captive for so long. I looked forward to experiencing even more with my new lover. I could only hope that I would live through this in order to do so.
     
     

    Mark
    I made my way into my office late. I was attempting to appear as if everything was ok but my nerves were on edge. I wasn’t a killer by nature and I wondered how I was going to kill the woman that I’d once been married to. I didn’t like the idea of shooting her because that seemed too messy. Cutting her throat also seemed like it would be too much of a blood bath. I was leaning towards choking her, maybe wrapping my belt around her neck and choking the life