18. Last Resort

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Chapter Eighteen Last Resort Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre. - Lillian Russell KAT Tampa, Florida Present Day - Four Days Later My pulse was racing. A trickle of sweat worked its way past my neck and down my back, and I ignored it, running past the pain. My lungs felt as though they would explode, and the asphalt underneath my feet was more quicksand than concrete, creating a numbing sensation that ran from the tip of my heel to my toes with each footfall. I could barely breathe and what little breaths I did take were spent sips of air, sucked in through car-fume fried nostrils. How had I let this happen? Horns blared at me as I crossed the street, sprinting through the boulevard crossing with little regard to the Range Rovers and luxury car

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