Tempted Trapped and Too Late to Run

Chapter 718

The man in front went sheet-white, his lips trembling. Before he could say another word, a bullet ripped right through his shoulder.

Clara didn't even look up, just spun her pistol in her hand. "Think carefully before you open your mouth again. The cops will be here by morning. If you keep quiet, you might walk out of here alive. But if you piss me off, you'll end up as dog food." Right on cue, Milo and Buddy barked-sharp, vicious, and in perfect harmony.

Everyone knew those two dogs were monsters. People said they could tear a man's arm clean off, and nobody doubted it. No one had ever seen animals like them.

The man's face turned even paler. He squeezed his eyes shut, jaw clenched tight.

"I don't know much," he stammered. "The guy in charge-he's a ghost. The boss never comes himself. We just get orders. All I know is, this place is tied to the Warren family in the Capital. I've never been there, but I've heard the name from the crazy women. They say there's a Mr. Schwaderer. That's it. I swear, that's all I know."

The Warren family? In the Capital?

Clara's eyebrows shot up. The Warrens were practically royalty—she never imagined they'd be mixed up in something this filthy.

"And those women-who are they?" she asked.

A handful of women wandered around the room, lost in their own worlds. Some crouched over the dead, trying to do CPR on corpses, the scene so eerie it made Clara's skin crawl.

Their bodies were covered in whip marks and bruises-scars that told stories no one should ever have to live.

be rich. Most of them started companies with their husbands. But when the men wanted everything for themselves, they needed their wives gone. So they drugged them, made them unstable, then sent them here under the

hiding secrets, but she never dreamed it would be this

laugh-cold and humorless. Calling

least fifty of them. Some had been here for years,

could survive this place with their

by the men they loved. Tortured in

darkness; it was the kind of

"Sis, you look

Call the police," Clara

time I've called the cops, he's yelled at me. And if bring up the Chester family, it'll just

another scandal."

Clara turned to Emily.

steady. "I'll call. I'll

then glanced at the others kneeling on the

up

snatched the gun from Clara

stunned, as the kneeling men dropped to