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take what I
want. ”
    “ What
do I have to do with this? ” Eden asked.
    “ You ’ re now my enemy. For where you
came from. The cunt you crawled out of and the cocksucker that put you there.
Talk about bad timing. Bad luck. Goddamn, girl, has anything gone right in your
waste of a life? ”
    The guy laughed again. Eden saw the
gun move away from her.
    It was her only chance to strike.
    She brought her right hand forward
and wanted to jam the tattoo gun and needle right into the guy ’ s eye and somehow kill him.
There was a small hesitation and Eden ended up stabbing him in the chest. It
was hardly enough to really hurt him, let alone kill him. But it was enough
that he dropped the gun, fell back, and screamed.
    Eden jumped over him and ran. He
quickly grabbed her ankles, bringing her to the floor. A jolt of pain shot
through both her knees up into her back. For a split second she was paralyzed.
Looking to her left, she saw one of the men. He started to reach for what she
knew had to be a gun.
    Eden quickly looked over her
shoulder and saw another chance. She kicked with her other foot and blasted the
guy in the face. It took two hard kicks to get him to let her go. She then
kicked away, got to her feet, and ran like hell. Voices were screaming at her
and her body shook with intense fear, waiting for a bullet to take her life
away.
    She got to the back room, peeled
open the plastic casing of the alarm system, and pressed the emergency button.
There was no time to stand, wait, talk, whatever. Eden then bolted for the
backdoor, making her final escape into the night. Somehow she had managed to
keep her cell, her keys, and the picture of her mother and father. Her
apartment was close enough to the shop that she didn ’ t have a car. That ’ s
probably why the intruders were surprised to see her there, they only saw
Dimitrio ’ s luxury car out
front.
    As Eden ran, she looked back only
once, but saw nothing but darkness. Maybe a minute or so later she heard
sirens. They could have been for anything, but somehow she knew they were
heading for the tattoo shop.
    The second she got into her
apartment, she shut the door, locked it, and collapsed to the floor in a heap
of sweat and tears. She hugged her knees and shook with fear and anger, trying
her hardest not to relive what had just happened.
    She forced herself to her feet and
rushed to the kitchen sink. Leaning over, Eden lost her stomach. It ended with
her dry heaving, crying, shaking. She reached for her pocket, knowing she
should probably call the police and explain what had just happened. She was the
only eye witness. But to what? Someone killed Dimitrio and threatened her. It
was pretty obvious whoever they were, they instantly knew who her mother and
father were.
    Eden grabbed the picture from her
pocket and examined it. She ran her thumb across the picture.
    Maybe this is my sign.
    “ To
do what? Run? ” she
whispered to nobody else in the apartment.
    It was the most insane thing to
think and perhaps do, but there was a chance those men were still out there,
still looking for her. It made her want to finally do it. To go see her father.
To get his help. She could explain what had happened and see what kind of man
he was, if he would help her, protect her, show her a place to actually call
home. With Dimitrio dead, that meant no more tattoo shop and no more job.
    In the matter of a second, Eden ’ s entire world had been turned
upside down.
    She went to her bedroom and looked
around. Everything was bought used. Everything had no meaning to her. The
closet was full of clothes, all of which easily packed into two large
suitcases. She cleaned out the bathroom of supplies she needed and grabbed a
few bottles of water for the car ride.
    Frelen was only a couple hours
away.
    This entire time, her father was
just a couple hours away.
    And better yet, those guys in the
black masks thought they were tough?
    Eden ’ s
father was a member of an outlaw motorcycle club.
    Her