I Deleted You Traitor Even My Blade Forgot Your Name novel Chapter 20

Once my injuries stabilized, Grayson used work as an excuse and stopped coming around.

Tomorrow was the deadline–the day the memory erasure would take full effect. I was packing my things, ready to leave for good, when the door slammed open.

Grayson stormed in, face tight in a way I’d never seen before.

He grabbed my wrist. “Come with me.”

Let go! Where are you taking me?”

le didn’t answer. Just dragged me to the car and drove like a maniac.

Ve didn’t stop until we reached some abandoned factory on the outskirts of town. That’s when I saw them–those desperate, dangerous men

nd I understood.

lis business expansion had cornered a rival. Now they’d kidnapped Serena.

Morgan, where’s the money?”

he leader sneered.

rayson shoved me forward. “Take her. Trade her for Serena. She’s my legal wife. The only daughter of the Carter family. She’s worth way more than Serena

You’re asking for too much cash. I need time to get it together. But with Elara in your hands, I won’t do anything stupid.”

ly blood ran cold.

Grayson said that, knowing him, he’d never actually pay. He’d just call the cops.

nd me? Left with these criminals?

d be dead.

Grayson… please don’t do this…” I grabbed his sleeve, voice shaking. “They’ll kill me…”

le peeled my fingers off one by one. His eyes were hard. Cold.

I can’t let anything happen to Serena.”

erena couldn’t be harmed.

ut my life? Didn’t matter?

Grayson, save me…”

Serena sobbed, reaching for him.

was shoved toward the kidnappers. I watched him walk out with her in his arms

As they closed in on ine, I worked the utility kufe rd hidden up my sleeve, sawing frantically at the ropes.

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Just as one of them lunged, the rope snapped.

I slashed the nearest guy and bolted for the door.

“Bitch!”

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Chapter 5

“Get her!”

I reached the exit and yanked at the lock–but the door was sealed shut.

Grayson had locked it on his way out. To keep them from escaping.

He’d cut off my only way out.

Backing up, I forced myself to stay calm. Tried to negotiate.

You want money, right? The Carter family has money. Let me go, and I swear I can-‘

They laughed.

Ha! You really think we agreed to swap you for Miss Reed because of money?”

Let me tell you the truth–Miss Reed hired us. She wanted you to suffer. To die slow.”

My whole body went numb.

his was Serena’s plan all along.

he punches came fast. Brutal.

ain exploded everywhere. My half–healed wounds tore open again.

curled up on the ground, heard the dull crack of my ribs breaking.

ist as I was about to black out, sirens wailed in the distance.

”

Didn’t Miss Reed say he wouldn’t call the cops?”

Fuck! She played us?!”

s the leader bolted, he turned back–eyes wild–and drove a knife into my stomach.

Go to hell!”

hrough the agony, I collapsed. Vision blurring.

hen I saw a familiar face.

fy friend.

le must’ve tracked me down when I didn’t show up.

looked at him, voice barely a whisper, but firm.

Take me away… Don’t let anyone find me…”