2023-07-18 12:30:49Hannah let out the whole steam as she stepped into her hotel room. The cold bath she had just had helped the situation. She kept pondering what Kennedy had up his sleeves.
She was beginning to suspect that he did not want to harm her at all but she would not be too trusting.
She knew what so much trust had done to her in the past. The one person who had landed in so much more trouble than she had from trusting too much was Declan. She chuckled at the mere thought of it.
As she lay down for the night, Kennedy still on her mind, her phone beeped by the bedside.
She lazily picked it up and looked at the screen. It was Samson. He had sent her a message.
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