Authors: Carolyn Haines
Judas Burning (38 page)
“She’s a little hellcat,” a man said. She didn’t recognize the voice.
“Shut up and bring her.” Another man she didn’t know spoke. Where was Big Johnny? Where was her mother?
And then she was lifted, her back pressed to the man’s chest, his arm around her, squeezing too tightly. She started to scream, to cry out for her mother, but the cry was choked back in her throat by the cruel fingers of the man who held her. She flailed her arms and legs, finally jamming her heel as hard as she could into the man’s crotch. He doubled over in pain, but his grip didn’t loosen.
“You little bitch,” he ground into her ear.
The other man laughed. “Shut her up,” he said. “We don’t want the brat to spoil our surprise.”
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