"Oh," Karen muttered under her breath, realization dawning on her. So this was the infamous Gillian.
The incredibly foolish idiot!
It wasn't surprising she described her that way; in Karen's eyes, Gillian was just that.
Stupid, despicable, and needing a beating!
How had Vivienne not knocked her lights out?
Gillian, hands clutched around her neck, took several deep breaths, cursing under her breath at Thomas for being such a brute with no chivalry.
After a moment, she finally turned her attention to Karen.
The legendary former captain of the Vanguard Agency, known as Lark.
And, as fate would have it, Vivienne's mother!
Gillian narrowed her eyes. "Who the hell are you? This is the secret Vanguard Agency prison! You think you can just waltz in here as you please? Thomas, let me tell you, you're in for a punishment! Don't think just because Vance told me to stay out of Vanguard Agency's business that I can't deal with you!"
Before Gillian could finish, Karen lunged forward, gripping Gillian's throat tightly.
She slammed her against the wall, feet dangling, struggling in vain.
Even Thomas, standing aside, was taken aback by how swiftly Karen had acted.
Gillian was gasping for air, on the verge of passing out.
"Dying is easy, and I could help you with that," Karen's voice was as cold as the Arctic.
Gillian, twice throttled, was furious but no match for Karen. She wanted to fight back, but a twisted smile crossed her face instead. "Go ahead, kill me! Let's see if you dare!"
lips curled into a smirk, her free hand tracing Gillian's contorted face, her fingertip grazing
is wanting to die but being unable to. Your life is in my hands now. I'll decide
wicked smile on her face,
mother, like daughter - a frightening duo
to the floor with controlled force. The fall drew blood and broke a few ribs, but nothing
Vanguard Agency's secret prison. If I decide to enter, it
help
really think she stood
Webster would
return to the Vanguard Agency had been a choice of preference, not a
name, the
secret prison, and Karen could come and go as
the highest
merely an adherence to
to Thomas and
wasn't as simple as he seemed, and she suspected there were questions left
to linger, left Gillian to her own
regain her composure, gasping for
was even more terrifying than Vivienne. When would this mother-and-daughter pair finally be
her chest, Gillian stumbled into Flynn's
they've changed the help that brings
pill. "Look closely. I'm
poor thing," Flynn said, catching
it than his brow furrowed tightly, and he collapsed
watched, her brow knitting at the
Truly horrifying.
they
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