Love on the Fast Track (Derek and Norah)

Chapter 218:

Norah sampled the cake with just two bites before setting her spoon aside. Only a small portion had been eaten, leaving the majority untouched on the plate.

“Aren’t you going to finish it?” Sean asked.

“It’s overly sweet for my taste,” Norah replied.

Sean slid a freshly poured glass of lemonade toward her, a drink he had ordered while she sampled the cake.

“This should help cut through the sweetness,” he said.

After a couple of sips, the tart lemonade mingled with the residual sweetness in Norah’s mouth. She paused and then indulged in two more sips. Despite its sweetness, dessert had a way of lifting spirits.

delivered chilling news in a steady voice. “Sean, ever wonder what’s inside there? It’s fingers. This bag holds the fingers of four

the twenty fingers. Norah’s expression remained stoic, her voice steady and unemotional as she

stunned. Could she really be telling the truth? He frowned and wondered what she meant by fingers. He vividly recalled the scene outside the deserted factory where

fear and timidity toward violence, the idea that she

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you can’t be serious. Right?” After a brief pause, Sean’s gaze moved from the bag

cleared the table, placed

wafted out, revealing a grotesque collection of human fingers. The cuts were clean, evidently done with a knife, and every finger bore

and used it to harm her, so I retaliated with iron wire from a construction site. They tore at her clothes and aggravated her injuries, which led me to sever each of their

A simple slash across their throats

might cast her in a merciless, unfeeling light in Sean’s eyes. Yet, what did that matter? If her actions could serve as retribution for Alice, any sacrifice

raised her head, she found

He caressed her back tenderly and added, “Do you really think so little of me? Facing those men alone must