Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

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.

had launched out of the box like it had a vendetta, brushing past our faces as it

snakes. Anything remotely squirmy, even a caterpillar, could send us both into

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

back off.

voice as I looked at her pale face.

dreading-dragging people I cared

snake this time, which means it's just

having it. She shook her head, her expression hardening.

Chapter 749

be scared off

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back down was like trying to make the sun

This was the Drago family-a dangerous game where they made the rules.

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

because

me a small laugh, though her eyes softened when she saw

threat had been aimed at me, I wouldn't care. But Lena? That was a

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

hesitation, she finally