ticking time bomb

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Portia Dead? No. No. Antonio drops me and I hit the floor, my head bouncing off hard stone. Callahan is dead? "Did you find those pieces of s**t?" someone asks. I roll onto my side gasping for breath, the back of my head throbbing. "Just the girl." I struggle to open my eyes and the room spins, the two of them standing over me like giants. Antonio and David. "She'll have to do." I hear Cerberus's growl, turn my head just enough to see him stalk into the room, teeth bared. "For f**k's sake. Get that beast away from me." It's David. Callahan's uncle. I watch Antonio take Cerberus and walk him away from us, but when David reaches down to grab hold of my arm and roughly haul me up, Cerberus tries to lunge for him. "Cerberus!" Antonio tries to command him but even as my head loll

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