“Do it,” she urged quietly. “Please.” Ryan swallowed hard. His entire body resisted the idea. The humiliation of kneeling before Marcus Lee burned inside him. But logic told him Natalie was right. If they tried to fight now while the snipers still had clear shots on them, they would die instantl

Ryan immediately struggled to push himself back up from the floor, but before he could properly rise, the giant man drove another brutal kick directly into his stomach. The force of the impact sent unbearable pain tearing through Ryan’s body, and he doubled over instantly while coughing violently.

Ryan remained completely frozen after Natalie collapsed into his arms. The shock held him still far longer than he expected, as though his entire body had forgotten how to move. For several unbearable seconds, he could not even process what had just happened. His mind felt painfully numb while

Ryan immediately untied the ropes around Brianna’s legs and hands before carefully helping her to stand upright. The moment she tried placing weight on her feet, however, her knees weakened badly beneath her, and her entire body nearly collapsed to the floor from exhaustion. Ryan reacted instan

Morning came but for Ryan Walker, however, it felt as though the nightmare from the previous night had never ended at all. Every part of his body ached terribly as he walked slowly through the hospital corridor. Yet even with all of that physical pain, none of it compared to the heaviness buried