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.

saw the beam of his flashlight cutting through the night, aimed right at me. He stood over "Jess, Jess, Jess," he tsked, crouching down

I hissed through clenched teeth, the words barely audible through the pain that was

and twisted. The gun in his hand gleamed under the beam of the flashlight. He

brutal. My head snapped back, pain exploding in my skull. Stars danced in my vision as everything spun around me. For a moment, 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 kick, to scream, but the

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In my ears, and the world around me felt distant, as if I was

fault, you know," Eric's voice cut through the haze, low and cold. His breath was hot against my ear as he carried me back toward

refused to give him the satisfaction of hearing met scream again. I wouldn't let him win, no matter

disdain. "But it's okay. We'll

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 aware of the ropes digging into my wrists. I tried Panic shot through me, sharp and cold, as I looked around the dimly lit

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heart raced as my gaze landed on Eric, who was

through my flesh was now wrapped tightly in white gauze, stained pink with blood. He looked up at me then, a slow

hard, my throat dry and

in the world. "I told you, didn't I? We'll fix this. Everything will

my ribs. He was insane. Completely