Jess drags herself into work next week after a weekend spent in hospital, still with the knee brace. It's not broken, but still really fucked up. Now she has a hospital bill to pay off as this is one not being footed by Maggie. Last time was a rare gesture from a millionaire and she'll never get that lucky again.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQSTcXNxGtP
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"Seriously? Do you have no life outside work? You could have stayed at home, you didn't have to come in." Bella says, standing right at the sign in booths.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK2seGZT9aY
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"Nope. And I have to, rent and medical bills."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDq2LpjfiB4
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"Okay... Anyway, Maggie and Anna wants to see you before shift start in that case. Main floor out here is still setting up the androids, toddler play zone, go karts, etc."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA3dOwDZQJX
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As they walk past heading to the elevator to the security office, she looks over at the medical tent. Just Brianna is present, she's setting up alone. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXGtqzuJMCA
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"Where's Adam?" She whispers to Bella. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkXfZlBSTFQ
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"He quit that afrernoon we sent you to the hospital. His going back to work for emergency services out on the street."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTZIjLx5fIy
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"Wait, is Brianna a private paramdeic too?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFVJFLNpFn
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"She is. Following in mothers footsteps and all that, that last part being fairly loose though, give or take."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRm53bJ03Ie
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"Who was her mother?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtgta8b0kOQ
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And Bella stops, turning to look at Jess. "Forget I said anything, I'm sorry."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3vmEINktW
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And then they continue on. Her co-workers have secrets like she does. They arrive upstsirs, seeing Maggie talking to people, Anna not present. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhKhTe2Jxuv
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"Maggie-" Bella begins, Jess cutting her off. "First of all, I just want to say I am not shooting up drugs. I have never touched drugs and if you want to fire me, go ahead. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY6EcpmaSpT
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Heck, I'll quit right now myself. I'm problematic, dragging drama to work with me. I sware I'm not doing it on purpose and I actually have no real intention of getting to know any of my co-workers. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6CXh7TB9fd
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I'm only here because I need a job to eat and pay my bills and that's it."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡffQdecQIoa
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Maggie stops talking mid setence hearing what was just said. "Oh..." Bella whispers, looking to the side, her hair falling and covering her face.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEhF3qqkWe
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Maggie turns around and takes a seat, leaning on one of the desks. "Jesse-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAUfG6fdlq
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"I prefer Jess."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnNdgIzvAtt
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"You're right, I'm sorry. I don't know you all that well. Jess, when my now dead and ex-husband murdered my children, 1 girl and four boys it tore me apart, I was an emotional wreck for years. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwHWGVARQo5
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I met him in University and dropped out as we fell pregnant, we married and I got pregnant several times after that. I stayed home living the home house wife life, he graduated and was also the bread winner, we we're rich, had a mansion and then he killed them and himself. He had been a tad abusive to me, but I never thought he was capable of murder.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡepKr1gp7sZ
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Fast forward a few years, I'm slowly picking myself up after grieving, I now run this place, it's not what I want to do forever, but there was alot of fines and debts that need paying, and I could only ignore them so long, I'm also in the position where I'm fucking loaded from the insurance payouts and that this fun centre is actually profitable, I sold the mansion and don't live there. It wasn't in complete disrepair, well, it kind of was. Give or take that, I still sold the plot of land it was on which was hundreds of acres.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡti3cLN36xY
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I fix this place up fully, pay off every fine and debt, have a full rotating roster for every department and I'm going to sell this bussiness to somebody else on the condition of they can't fire anybody in the first 12 months, they will sign a legally binding contract, I have a team of lawyers.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjZ2XZIfPF
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Every employee here is fully aware of that fact, I just not had told you yet and I'm sorry. Then I am packing my bags and jet setting for France, I will be leaving the country."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa3u5rQ6qMx
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"Okay? So, how does-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLB2qMa0oM5
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"What I'm trying to tell you is what kind of boss am I let alone a human being if I am having no fucking empathy, compassion, understanding what so ever for other people? You aren't going to be fired by me unless you do something as bad as the ones who locked you in the android warehouse first shift, that's an immediate dissmial. And the county for this area fined me for that, laying out heating was a regulation in warehouses overnight even if they are not made for humans as accidents like yours happen.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXIshqPBQHE
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I could have accidentally killed you, Jess. The county keeps a very close eyes on this place, there is constant reviews and other sectors sticking their nose in."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUtbGynV32
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"Sectors?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15Z9xa9Enl
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"Like the Android Regulation & Human Safety Board."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1HV3GegDy
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"... I know that one."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7GSX6zeNHb
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"I'm sorry?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpSqsQOKJGe
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"Maggie, before I bought a one way ticket here... where I came from, it was a city without automation. Well, it wasn't without automation, it didn't reject innovation, but androids we're banned... "105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelfGAUTPPj
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"Wait, this is your first time seeing androids?" Maggie starts laughing. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJCkbMhuMZI
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"Yeah! Well, I saw them online... but never up close till now." Jess cries a little. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyRJxB9Pe70
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"Damn, so what do you really think of them?!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6vT85du7h
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"Really lifelike! I can barely tell the diffrence between them and a person! Well, except when they say, "I'm sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand the question and/or this topic/phrase.""105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV0QdZ8Glh3
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"I know right?! It was so stressful when I first took over, I was not to used to them. I didn't interfere with my ex-husbands bussiness at all beforehand."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9Nww7S1dyy
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"So, what is your dream? Because it's not this place."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kjTQ9Votc
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"Fashion designer." And Maggie holds a magazine out to Jess. Maggie's on the cover wearing a goregous sparkly jumpsuit.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPm1awDd3ol
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"Is that yours? Did you design it?" Just a few months ago, she could have afforded that jumpsuit there, hefty price-tag not mattering.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH0Hn2Yw8ej
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"Yes, I did. I dabble in it, but most of my time is eaten up by this place. Looking forward to when I can offically leave it all behind and pursue what I want to really do."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gmn53OOUr
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"Where do you live now if it's not... your mansion..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLmLvQ8PR8e
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"I rent a two bedroom apartment in a high rise overlooking the beach. It's still in the swanky part of the city. Get this, my neighbor is a Doctor as well. She co-developed the treatment for Hanahaki Disease. She moved in just last month. Crazy, I'm surrounded by bloody doctors." Maggie laughs.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡciTrbyfWUW
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"Who else is a Doctor around you? And what is Hanahaki?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡphiYHuCacf
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"Me. I'm a Psychatrist, but I'm still a Doctor, Jesse." Says an unknown voice, turning around to see it's Anna. "And if you're lucky, you will never find out what Hanahaki is. It's brutual, but you could search it up later online I guess..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZhNrpEQEwt
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"But not on company time." Maggie laughs. "I'm sorry, Jess. But I need to be actually running, I'm supposed to be in a group call soon. Uh, so, please don't quit... Bella will give you your tasks for today, you're on office duty, I can't have you on the floor with your leg still injured... Now, I have to run." And Maggie leaves.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZNpf8IctlW
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"Jesse, so you know, I'm not here to make the employees of Maggie's lives worse or snitch on you all. I'm here to help, but it's not just you all. It's Maggie too... She has never been the greatest at dealing with people and that's where I come in."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOEPCIUAIn7
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"But you we're at-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLq5vB45sPE
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"The Hospital. And I'm still checking in on patients there and outpatient, but I have signed on for a few months here during the day. I'm just removing the working nights aspect at the hospital, they can employee somebody else for that.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKSZZv2yCck
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I'd like to offer you one appointment a week so we can talk."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDvqHQGPMxm
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"...... Bella, what are my tasks for today?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSsF4xTLBt8
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"That's okay, you can take some time to come around to the idea. You're not under any community based treatment order. I have an office near Maggie's if you want to talk." And Anna leaves. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3rUNXnEHW6
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"She does not seem like an annoying corporate-" Jess begins. 'No, she does not." Bella responds. Anyway, let me get you set up at a computer. Also, we reviewed the security footage, saw what Ren did. She has been discplined, but we have also talked to Jamie. Though I think it when in one ear and out the other for Jamie, she doesn't want to go to school, would prefer to hang out here and bring... her baby sister with it. There has to be something going on with her parents if her baby sister's not in childcare arrangement and at school for Jamie."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6h3yT51Rkj
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"And why can't we dob her into police?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡByWYGYoo2b
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"The law doesn't allow us. If a Truancy Officer wishes to check the funpark, turning up on their own accord, we have to let them in. Jamie and even her friends will get caught eventually anyway so let's just try and ignore her for now, she is paying money ontop of her season pass every single day... It helps pay our wages."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjP29rDY0X
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"Where is a 15 year old getting that much money?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDwn6dKq7Z
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"I don't know. As I said parental problems, maybe? Distant and maybe loaded?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRNzsf6sW7l
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"She doesn't dress it."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnouT6eu4M
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"That's how teenagers dress, Jess. It's called Scene."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJVp6HVHEUq
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Jess looks at her like she's crazy. "What did you wear?" Bella asks her. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡemh3hUdMnt
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"Pink stripes and pink polka dots and lots of bows and sparkles..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtQC8U3NMNa
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"Farm wear, and hand me downs."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpJEKl286vr
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And both girls laugh a little. "We're horrible." Jess says. "I know!" Bella laugh cries.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmhaOA2WNfd
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The day passes pretty uneventfully, has to stop during the day to take some pain meds and soon enough the day draws to a close. Just like clockworse, a text is recieved, Douglas.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiW67WGCYg
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Douglas: Come outside, corner of the building, don't be noticed by Bella, enter the blind spot.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEXvWTy9Co
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Jess: I have a leg brace on, my knee is still really fucked up from running from you. If you're going to grab me or whatever, just take it easy on my knee, please.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiu9eSiwBHP
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Douglas: Fucking get your ass outside, or Bailey is coming in in the next five minutes and dragging you out.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQffeZ12vI0
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Jess: He wouldn't infront of everyone else.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaMyubvHaG
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Douglas: Distracting Maggie is not that hard. I can have Green call her phone and waste her time. Everyone else? They won't overly give a shit about you. You have five minutes.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcMOVczL6m
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She puts her phone down, sighing, collects her stuff and signs out. Bella has nothing to debrief anyone on. Heading out to around the side of the building, she sees Douglas classic green car waiting right in the back in the shadows. She can see some damage down down the side, but for the most part it looks cosmetic and they buffed most of it out. Douglas is hanging out in the drivers seat, but Bailey and Green are waiting outside. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaFS8O9g5dC
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"Seems it wasn't written off then." 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsoysaWqVvl
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They all look at her. "Thanks to you, the airbags don't work now and I'm going to have to look into a 3rd party work around option." Douglas moans, not getting out of the car. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxofQwfyu2
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"Come on, girly. Bag." Bailey says, holding his hand out gesturing for Jess bag which she hands over, him throwing it to Douglas through the window. He then takes her arm, Green taking her other and they force her into the backseat, mindful of her injured leg. Bailey does her seatbelt, but they don't let go of her arms the whole drive, taking back roads and other places.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx9JXZL9Fp9
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"Where are we going?" She asks, which earns no reply. "Are you going to kill me?" Which finally elicts a response. "No, I'm not going to kill you. You're more my informer on the inside. Make to much trouble though, and I will kill you then and find someone else.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyKfZHpdb5V
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If you care about your friend, Bella-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjImfrJMqSR
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"She's not my friend!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVySMpeXhop
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"I don't believe you." Douglas snaps back, Jess getting a little heated and tries to pull her arms to no resistence. "You do that again, and I will sedate you." Bailey finally speaks.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqM4Fvpjw1G
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"Where the hell did you even meet these two, Douglas?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1voqunu5UK
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"The previous street racing party I attended. It wasn't the one you we're briefly at. I seriously can't fucking believe you pulled that stunt last time, you little bitch. We almost didn't get out of there, I know that detective followed up on you, tracking you down to your workplace."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpT8dafQQkw
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"I didn't tell her anything!" 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡit4zN9B3KO
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"And you better keep it that way. You do not want to see me angry. And I mean really angry."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2MAS1MILz
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She gulps. "You killed your kids..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK5y8yn454p
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"That's right."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDTkF2DC5x
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"Dude, what the fuck?!" Green calls out, looking to Bailey. "Green, shut up." Bailey tells him. "Mr Douglas here is a paying client."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LSNv0Zmyf
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"But-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHFRwNSBKK
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"Green!"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86BjOD3VRx
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"I fucking change my mind, sedate me." She whispers. "Me too, Jess. But I need to drive the car." Douglas whispers back a little, a small smile and trying not to laugh.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0hYQjab4VP
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They pull up to what looks like an abandoned building and the definition of sketch. "Is this where you took me the first time you-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwihzA1iwPT
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"No, that actually was the secret bunker under my home. I've enlisted the services of others from now on, and I think this will be more fitting."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDWNaUGWET1
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And Jess is helped out the car, dragged inside. Douglas stands to the side as Bailey puts in a pin on the keypad, pushing open then door, walking in and Green carries Jess in by the waist, lifting her feet off the ground, Douglas following behind and closing the door.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKDQ6jV9owc
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Seems bitch work is now below him. She sees a kitchen off to the side and someone else is present. "Hey. You guys want Coffee?" And they come out into the open. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSmnIh2rle9
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"Brianna?" She says out loud, but then realizes it isn't her. This woman is much older and sighs. "You gotta be kidding, come on! No, that's my daughter. I'm her mother not that she calls me that. The state took her into care when she was little and I never really got her back. She hates me. Now, who wants Coffee?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTBrWaIpay
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She sees on the bed, ropes already attached to the headboard and base. "No! No, no!" She yells, struggling and Green only takes her closer, Bailey assisting. They throw her against the mattress, tying up her arms and then her feet and one across her waist for good measure. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGBBX58qdNO
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"Douglas! Douglas!" She yells, but he turns away and ignores her, walking out. Bailey and Green get off her and walk out as well, switching off the light and it all goes dark, hearing the door click, someone locking it. She's trapped in this room in the dark as it's boarded up, and tied to the bed for the next few hours. She can yell and scream as much as she wants, but they all ignore her, no one coming in. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlTgSKH1apt
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She nods in and out of sleep, unaware how long it's been and barely registering someone unlocking the door and coming in, closing it behind them. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCCqbe7roWv
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"Jesse, Jess, wake up." They call, applying pressure to her shoulder, giving it a little shake. She opens her eyes and they take a seat beside her on the bed. "Here's how it's going to be. You're going to pull your act together and start really doing what I want or I am going to make your life a living hell and you can expect this room to be the last thing you see. You've got the weekend to make your choice, no one will be looking for you. I texted Bella from your phone and that your leg was killing you and you now no longer have a shift. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0g7DX4TmnM
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See you later, I have to go home now."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2xyfgxNyk
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"But you can't leave! I still need food and-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJFkSOeoRO
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"You won't be alone, the others are still here. Be good, see you Monday." And he walks out, locking the door again. She screams, straining after he leaves and her limbs start to burn, causing her to stop.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡylswFQD38z
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Time passes and when she next wakes up, she doesn't know what day it is. Is it still today or is that yesterday now. She then realizes she's not alone.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVMbKPv8a8h
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Three are present. "You hungry?" Asks the women. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8tIZHK32k4
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"Are you really Brianna's Mum?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡldouCGmZvT
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"I am, and we have no relationship. She resents me understandably."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyd0XPIyAx
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"My friend told me she was following in her Mum's footsteps. Are you are a paramdeic?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfwm3iIyrg
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"No, I'm a Surgeon actually. But give or take that, my daughter still chose a similar proffesion. She's doing it because she wants to show she's a good person and better at helping people compared to me."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvC0El222H7
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"What's your name?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSq3OJCYfM
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"Maeve. It used to be Bonnie, why Bailey here called me Bon Bon when you first walked in."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfjtHtlg3G
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"We can drop the last names charade now, I think Jesse. We're the ones in charge here, Douglas hired us for a reason." Bailey speaks up. "And I'm Johnthan. Behind me, Bobby. The cop you ran into used to be his fiance actually."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXztGpdG3Sm
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"She's a detective, and don't call me, Jesse! It's Jess."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcS3JplOB9k
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"Whatever." Bobby snaps.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBccTvgbcbu
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"You hungry, Jess?" Maeve asks. She shakes her head no. "Who are you guys?" She asks.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEN12h6u9qL
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"We belonged to a former human trafficking ring. It was dismantled, but there is still a few of us so I suggest you don't push us. I'm in charge now. Douglas has given permission for us to hurt you if needed. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcFzYTSJlI5
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We still take contracts on from people like him." Johnthan tells her.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0CjfOtd4zK
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She doesn't know what to say, this is serious. She sinks into the bed, wanting this hell to be over. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjEQPSYzYo
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"Seems like you're learning your lesson as we speak." He adds on, leaving and gestures the others to follow. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYog085HgBb
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Hours pass and she lays in the dark, awake unable to fall back to sleep and her limbs are aching from being tied in the same position for hours on end when she hears her door open, someone coming in. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjDro8utSDA
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It's Bobby and he closes the door behind him, taking a seat beside her on the bed, inching closer.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZV5Rqfyme
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"You awake, Jesse?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEfVgbCgxE
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She ignores him and he peers over, looking at her face. "Yeah, you're awake. You hungry now?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDuNbBc6cfL
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She shakes her head no, not giving him any of her voice. He doesn't deserve it. "Uh, okay then. Well, don't starve yourself too long or Johnthan will have Maeve insert a feeding tube. Bringing you here was to make you obey Douglas, you dying isn't the plan here really...105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyVgIsLA2WG
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So, uh, what do you think of Clara? She used to be my girlfriend, I was going to marry her... but uh, my life has really gone to shit since then. That was a long time ago now. Everyone around me ended up having kids and they are all grown up now, most of them are your colleagues suprisingly.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyrrM96xQ73
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"Are their parents still-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcmo1cyHFFt
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"Not all of them are apart of us anymore. We either went to jail, a mental hospital, deported and jailed I heard and then they either got out and lived normal lives, got married, had kids, worked legal jobs... or they ended up like me. Alone, and went back to a life of crime. This is the only life I know, I was in university before, but got kicked out and no one would employee me."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNFgXoAox7d
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"Johnthan said you all we're in-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI7oPyWD5P0
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"A human trafficking company, we we're called Ring. I still have my ring actually." And he shows it off, a snake biting it's tail in a circle around his finger.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYTVyALwb4T
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"Very symbolic..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7opgfaNprt
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"Thank you." He smiles. "Uh, so my ex, Clara. Do you like her?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD7OYBUEIbF
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"Not really, I don't want to see her again. Somehow I have a feeling she isn't going to leave me alone. They're onto me now the police.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBxSpVCpbnH
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A few weeks back... the Hospital called me after my discharge. Said my blood results indicated I had Merge in my system, they had to expand the testing range as it they weren't looking for it at first as it's a black market drug.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Tat0zE8w4
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It's an offense to carry here, but not if it's in your system. It still gets reported to the police though, but there was nothing they could do. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKfjIdY9EiR
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They already know who I am and some stuff about me and when I was running from you all, and Clara hit me minorly, she inspected my neck. I was unconsciousness for a minute. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3MkWg2aKj1
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People who shoot up, do it in their arms, not their neck. She would have reported that and later discovered my drug report from the hospital. When she came to check up on me supposedly work, I think she already knew about the Merge."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3A6Tb1zUiE
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"Okay. Well, try and her dismiss her as much as you can, okay? She'll come back, she is a very determined person. She never took no for an answer. She used to be a police officer before, we lived in Canada.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYT6NZu0SXS
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I'm suprised she's a detective now, I didn't know. But hey, as long as she's happy I guess..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNgHrM2Ffs
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She nods slowly. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoAqSAyFkAr
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"Jesse-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfeVKuLfJPJ
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"I prefer Jess."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXi0jcq3Jb4
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"Sorry. Umm, about what I said before. The... sex thing. I was drunk that night and being a douche. I should have never said it.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7HMXR41tG
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Just... you are really pretty though. Any guy would be lucky to have you, and how Douglas described your personality. Resourceful-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TOyvExHiZ
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"Shut up, I don't know want to hear about my attributes."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdyvXIYRSs
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"Why?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5fmNfQF6z
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"Because I and my life is meaningless."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnsMwBpqLP
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"Why do you think that? Did someone tell you that?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT4xBQHv6DR
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She doesn't say anything. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6vppi7jcON
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"Okay. Well, what I said is true though."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlrN9U3s93h
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"I like females, not just men."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOffMqbucVt
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"Sorry again. Anybody would be lucky to have you."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo35phbdUu5
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"Can you leave?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQV4q9FpuzD
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"Uh, sure. I just thought you would have wanted the company. Lying here tied to the bed is very boring."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX9bA7AMTkp
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"And how would you know, I might like the silence."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlMI3S5JYKb
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"Because it's the equvillent of waiting in an interrogation room handcuffed to the table for six hours before someone gets to you."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUtzi6bVr8A
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It is boring, and you're lying to me."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqL22U1gXvg
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"Please leave."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiEubwqXNL
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"Jess, you're not listening to me. I'm trying to ask..."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHUnDfs7KYb
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"Ask me what?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbIQZujZ8mv
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"I haven't been with another women in a long time."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsI5noWwkW
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"You want me to be your girlfriend is that it?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIr6tMzmWgb
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"No! Well, no. Relationships happen later."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyBZNPHgDT8
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"So you want sex, Mr Drunk."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIVDvL8iIn
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"No-" And he slaps his hand to his face, embarassed.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN5ru2yW494
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"I'm not stupid, Bobby. I had an ex-boyfriend before moving here. Douglas knows my base story. My ex was my fiance to and his sex drive was high. If you want to have sex with me, just come out and say it. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYb65INb4cP
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But I won't be your girlfriend. Not at this point."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1aLUKu0c7
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His quiet and looks at her. "Bobby?" She says, calling his name. He crawls ontop of her slowly, feeling his hand trailing up her stomach towards under shirt and his other hand creeps down to just below her pants, resting right underneath where it lays.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuX8T9LzrE5
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She squirms, pushing her legs together trying to push his hand away and his lips touch hers, tongue inserted, feeling his hand on her chest give a good squeeze and then a good rub. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTxf62rq688
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His fingers rubbing just on the outside below to stimulate. "Mmm! Stmp!" She tries, but can't say anything with his tongue in her mouth. He pulls her pants down, shoving three fingers in. She bites his tongue and lips, him screaming in pain and jumps back. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WbnFxkrD2
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"Johnthan! Maeve!" She yells him, quickly covering her mouth with his hand. "Stop! No!" He says. She squirms, not able to say anything. Bobby stays quiet, listening and no one comes. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ewqQCetrp
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He looks relieved and picks himself up and helps her dress, keeping a hand on her mouth. "You say anything to them, I will make you wish you hadn't. I know where you live, I know who you friends are and I can easily acess Johnthan's supply of drugs." and he removes his hand, leaving the room quickly.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbtyZl7G5M
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For days after that, she doesn't see or hear anyone really. Maeve visits briefly, able to persuade Jess to take a few bites of food, but that's it till the door opens and Douglas walks in. It must be Monday...105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG8Y7nAhlxr
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"Morning, Jess. Works tomorrow for you. You made up your mind? Are you going to start getting me what I want? You we're great at the start, but then went fairly aloof."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuVVDZb7VU6
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"Douglas, I have psychosis." She tells him quickly. He looks caught off guard quickly and sinks to her level, confused.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8MwX9oML5d
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"When I was gone for a while, I was stuck in the psych ward because of your Maggie. I had my first break at work and-"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPPvO1Kc5l4
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He doesn't let her finish, him quickily pulling on the rope restraining her and it all comes loose. "Shit, I'm so sorry." He says putting his head in his hands. She sits up a little. "Jess, if I had known- You shoulda told me the truth. Damn it. No wonder the Psychatrist is hanging around the centre, it all makes sense now"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMsJqFJNDC
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"Anna?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwWnmU00VF6
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"Yes. She was Maggie's dorm room mate back in University. They hated eachother at first. My ex was never good at dealing with people, and I did isolate her from others... when we we're married... no wonder she called Anna. She isn't coping at running the centre alone. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR6uVY5Rmck
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Jess, if you ever get sick or something again, just tell me. You we're sick, not deliberatly avoiding me. I'm sorry I scared you last time we met and I gave you Merge, that would have made your problems worse and now your knee is injured because of me. Did you recieve a formal diagnosis or anything?"105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlFCqMF40Fs
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"Not yet."105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJZ752wNgBZ
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"Okay, listen, I know Anna. You need to comply. She will send you back to hospital if you have more symptoms and don't engage in treatment, and I would have to find someone else at your workplace. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡovIoaBZoq9
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Can you see Anna for me? Just play along, send me what can you about the center and I'll never give you Merge again if we can help it." And his holding his hand out for her to shake it. She slowly does, "Thank you." He tells her, pushing her to lie down. 105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoBnIYU4XP3
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She goes stiff. "I'm not going to tie you up again. Just get some rest, work is tomorrow." And he tucks the blanket around her. "They told me you said they we're allowed to hurt me." She speaks up. "Bailey? I- Yes, I did say that. If you we're difficult, they could. But nowhere noticeable, I'm sorry." Then he leaves, taking the rope with him. She does hear the door lock, guess it was almost too good to be true.105Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iBwCLu19u
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