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A Neglected Legacy Chapter 1 should be going live soon today, please enjoy a brief excerpt. Thank you to everyone for your time and kind words.

Chapter 1

"Chloe."

"Where did she go?"

Nadine ended the call and jammed her phone back into her back pocket.

"I think she came this way!"

"Damn it."

The fine hairs on the back of Nadine's neck stood on edge as she raced down the long trash-lined alleyway. Her phone vibrated in her pocket, but she couldn't answer it with the clamor of footsteps nipping at her heels. When she spotted an opportunity, she ducked behind a tall pile of trash, and forced her exerted breathing into a steadier cadence as the sound of footsteps grew closer.

"I swore she came this way."

"She must have. Where else could she have gone?"

Nadine stayed silent as two figures walked past, then slipped behind them.

While both men were bigger, they were far slower than Nadine, and one had the weakest chin. It took little effort to incapacitate them both; then she was off again, racing back down the long alley she'd originally come from.

"Damned Drake."

All Nadine wanted to do was give Sam his lighter to ensure that he didn't come pestering her and Chloe later. Leave it to him to piss someone off enough to wind up getting stuffed in the back of a van. Nadine should have listened to her instincts and left him.