Bye-Bye Jerk, Hello Mr. Right by Rosie Steppe

Chapter 749

From the look on her face, it was clear-Lena didn't order anything.

I got up to help her with the package, figuring she was wiped from her day in surgery. I double-checked the label. Yep, it was addressed to her.

"Maybe one of your admirers sent you a gift?" teased, setting the box on the table.

Lena gave me a seriously? look but grabbed a box cutter and started slicing it open.

I leaned in to watch because, honestly, I was just as curious.

Big mistake.

The second she pulled back the flaps and opened the inner box, we both screamed like we were extras in a horror movie.

And kept screaming..

Because slithering out of the box was a snake.

Our panic didn't stop until someone outside, probably alarmed by the banshee-level noise, burst in and grabbed the snake.

the box like it had a vendetta,

thing-we weren't just scared of snakes. Anything remotely squirmy, even a caterpillar, could send us both into a full-blown meltdown.

address. When I checked, my stomach dropped. It was from the apartment complex I used to live in. Problem? That place was demolished

victims had been noticed, and this was their way of

back off.

heavy in my voice as I looked at her

been dreading-dragging people I cared

a snake this time, which means

Lena, wasn't having it. She shook

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be scared

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like trying to make the sun rise

petty beef. This was the Drago family-a dangerous game where they made the rules. If they wanted to hurt Lena, they

my grip on her hands. "Lena, listen to me. If anything happens to

because

gave me a small laugh, though her eyes softened when she saw how shaken I was. You're

wasn't wrong. If the threat had been aimed at me, I wouldn't care. But Lena? That

you'll stop looking for the other girls," I pressed, refusing to let