Letting My Brother's Best Friend Take My V-Card

PART 4-CHAPTER 177

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My breath came in ragged gasps, each step through the snow slower than the last. The cold bit my skin, and my legs

screamed from the effort, but I couldn't stop. Not yet. I pushed myself forward, heart pounding in my chest as I glanced back over my shoulder. The flashlight beam sliced through the darkness, closer than it had been before. Eric was right behind me.

I stumbled, the uneven ground and thick snow pulling at my feet like they were trying to swallow me whole. My lungs burned with each breath of freezing air. I had to keep moving, I had to find a way out of this nightmare. But the snow was so thick and the cold so deep that Then, I heard it.

A deafening crack tore through the air, and in the same

instant, a searing pain shot through my right leg. I gasped, stumbling forward, then crumpled to the ground. I screamed, clutching my leg, the agony so intense I thought I might pass out. Blood soaked through my fingers as I pressed them to the wound, my mind unable to process what had just happened.

I'd been shot.

He'd shot me.

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"Fuck!" I cried, pain radiating up my leg with every frantic heartbeat. The snow beneath me was stained red. My thoughts were spinning, pain blotting out everything else, but through the haze of agony, I heard his footsteps approaching. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

getting closer and closer. I looked up, blinking against the blur of tears, and saw the beam of his flashlight cutting through the night, aimed right at me. He stood over "Jess,

the words barely audible

beam of the flashlight. He stared at me for a moment before, with no warning, he pulled back his

I wasn't sure which way was up. My mind screamed at me to move, to fight, to do anything, but my body wouldn't listen. I felt his hands on me then, rough and unyielding, as he grabbed me by the waist and hoisted me over his shoulder like a sack of flour. I wanted to struggle, to

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and the world around me felt distant, as if I

the haze, low and cold. His breath was hot against my ear as he carried me back toward the cabin. "If you'd just stayed

squeezed my eyes shut, biting back a sob that threatened to escape my throat. Every step he took sent a jolt of pain through my leg, but I refused to give him the satisfaction of hearing met scream again. I wouldn't let him win, no

it's

copper. I blinked, trying to focus, but my vision was still blurry, and my head felt like it was stuffed with cotton. Slowly, I became

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on the walls. My heart raced as my gaze landed on Eric, who was crouched

torn through my flesh was now wrapped tightly in white gauze, stained pink with blood. He looked up at me then, a slow smile creeping across his face. "There you are," he said softly, his voice almost tender, but there was something chilling in the way he

dry and scratchy. "What...what are you

you," he replied, as if it were the most obvious thing in the

heart hammering against my ribs. He was insane. Completely and