Chapter 85
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85. Angel
The “doctor” shoots and kills Carlos’ man before he can react and blows him a kiss. Then the winks at
me
We never met until now, but I have spoken with her over the phone a lot. Beetle. One bad as s bi tch.
Her words, not mine.
“Come on, chick, time to get out of here,” Beetle says as she takes out a cotton dress from the
briefcase and helps me put it on. Carlos gave me no clothes, saying I wouldn’t need them since my
only purpose is serving the Dukes.
“There are too many Dukes around here during the day and…I am afraid I am only going to slow you
down”
“Not today,” Beetle tells me. “The Lords have demanded a truce for today, and they are holding a
meeting with the Dukes on neutral grounds right now.
“But surely there are still guards, I say, not wanting anything to happen to her b
because of me
“I either get you out of here, or I will burn the building down!” A loud explosioning from a distant
part of the Celestial Heaven almost throws me off of the bed. “This is our signal that we have to get out
now,”
room is not on the same floor as the rooms of the women living here and who are forced to serve
Screams of frightened womene from the floor above us. My room i the Dukes.
Beetle helps me get out of bed, and before we leave the room, she takes on ess card from the
pocket of the dead man, Walking is very painful, but knowing that soon everything will be over fuels
me, and adrenaline rushes into my bloodstream.
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are you with?” I ask as we make it to the stairs. “And why are we going up instead of down?”
Despite the explosion, the Celestial Heaven is unusually quiet. Except for the women who are still
“Mantis and a new girl that joined this week. Cricket is her name, Mantis will be the one to by us away
from here
I have never talked to Mantis, but I have heard a lot about her. She used to be in the army until an
injury to her left knee forced her to take a 9-5 office job, which she hates since she is an action girl. And
she knows how to pilot a helicopter.
“But we will expose ourselves too much,” I try to make her see reason.
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“It is the only way to get you out of here. And you know Wasp’s mantra: ‘No one is left behind.
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When we reach the Boor where the s ex sl av es are kept, Beetle yells, “If myone w wants to escape,
now is the time, as the explosion won’t keep the guards distracted for long”
We keep going up the stairs until we reach the door that leads to the rooftop. The door requires a pass
or an ess card to open, and Beetle uses the one she took from Carlos’s man. And I finally hear the
helicopter, the Celestial Kingdom’s walls have to be soundproof.
A ropedder
falls from the helicopter, and I grab it. Climbing is more difficult than I thought, but I don’t give up, and
once I am inside the helicopter, I cry. Beetle helps me put on the safety belts and then bugs me.
Goodbye, I think as the helicopter takes me away from Veross City.
Four monthster
A new victim of the most feared serial killer in thest ten years, the But cher, was discovered
yesterday in his bar in New York. The victing, schase identity hasn’t been made known, ti messing his
ridend, eyes, and depot. Sources say the man had been subjected to exterme torture for hours
before he was killed
People are starting to get worried, as the Butter has killed a total of forty even men in four months, for
of them this werk.
How many more will the Bu tcher kill with caught?
I finish reading the newspaper, fold it, and put it to my cup of coffee. I usually read it on my phone, but I
felt like doing something different today.
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