“Listen to me, Elena. If Valenti ever tries to take you downstairs, you run. You run away from him and hope that while you’re running, he shoots you in the back. It’s better than what’s waiting for you down there. I don’t know if Reeves is a part of it or what, but just…stay away from them.” I gulp. “What happens downstairs?” She doesn’t answer me, so I pinch her arm lightly. “Tell me.” She sighs. “Valenti always has a ‘favorite’. She becomes his personal bartender for a while, and then if he takes her downstairs, I never see her again, and he comes back out of that elevator with duffle bags
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