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Devyn Rivers
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July 25 - July 27, 2025
For the bad girl who wants to be called “good girl” There are no heroes here— And the villains take what they want.
His eyes were bright blue, nearly the color of the glaciers I saw hiking the other day. There was something wild and almost feral about him.
A piece of the propeller impaled him through the neck. I followed it backwards and saw it just missed the man in handcuffs. I wasn’t sure if he was alive or not. I looked over at the Marshal and found vacant eyes staring at me. He was dead too.
“No, you like authority and dominance. And you can be controlling without being an asshole.”
“Don’t worry sweetheart,” I said as I turned my back to her. “When I touch you, it’ll only be after you beg me to.”
Do you plan on running into something else you’ll need the bullets for?”
She was a wildfire someone tried to contain in a fireplace—it just didn’t work.
We lost touch over the years as life took us in different directions
“Unfortunately, I’m going to have to take her with me.”
“Regardless, I’m still taking her.
I have a little thing going out here,”
“The less you know the better. Let’s just say she’ll be very profitable for me.”
“If you let her go, I’ll consider us even,”
his humanity always was questionable and he was a man who enjoyed toying with people just to see them fall.
“I’m letting you go and that’s calling us even. I’ll never forget what you did for me. Fuck, I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you—but if I was smart, I’d kill you right now.”
“Oh—if you head that way—” he pointed off in the opposite direction of where he was headed. “—you’ll come to a service station in a few weeks.”
“I mean it. Next time I see you, we’ll be even.”
“Welcome to the Warren my dear!”
“Process her. She’ll be in the auction tomorrow.”
“Tracker and identifier,”
“She is number 178. Put her in Block 5,”
Cooper was running a human trafficking operation.
“We’re only rabbits to him,”
Before I could move, he snapped a collar identical to the others around my neck. He palmed a device in his hand and then I felt my body go rigid with pain as electricity shot through me.
“You’ll get auctioned off to the highest bidder for five days.”
“Tonight we will auction off twenty beautiful bunnies for you to spend the next five days with.
A Warren for Cooper’s rabbits.
Vandal might claim you afterwards but until he says otherwise—”
“You know Vandal is going to claim her,”
“You can call me Kraven.”
Apparently he was a big game hunter with a skewed sense of honor and often considered an antihero.
“They—they’re going to—”
know,” Kraven said. “They said—if I told you—” “I saw everything.” “What—” “I heard everything.”
“I’ve done something like this before on an island—”
“Vandal claimed you,”
“It means no other guards can touch you.” “Why?” “You don’t want to cross Vandal,”
But who was Vandal?
“Vandal is Cooper’s head of command,”
The company I not only worked for but where I was the Chief Technical Officer.
“Kaelin! Kaelin! Stop! It’s me—.”
It was Graham.
“Graham?” I said hoarsely. “What—what are you—? Oh my god—”
“It’s the only way to get out of here. I can close some passageways and limit the number of guards who come after us. Otherwise, the minute they figure out we’re trying to escape they’re going to trap us.”
She was seeing me for exactly who I was. A methodical killer. A cold blooded murderer. A broken man.
“He’s doing some sort of human testing,”
“Well, your timing is impeccable. I came across some interesting information today,”
“Do you know who the girl actually is?”
“She could be the key,” Cooper was saying. “I need her, Wolfe.” “Kaelin—what is he talking about?”
“My last name is Bennet,”
“I’m the CTO of Phox.”
