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Ashley peeped through the window, the diamond necklace displayed there drew her attention. It looked very familiar, she placed her palm on the window that separated them and leaned in closer, then even closer.
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Oh my God!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOf2AYwI2d1
It suddenly dawned on her where she had seen it! Around the neck of her best friend that she was traveling with!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡznOzS2X6yg
Shauna!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOJYdgMXVhG
She and Ashley had decided to vacation together in Columbia. The sights had been amazing and the people too. But, now Ashley wasn't quite so sure.
Frantically, she dialed her cell number. It rang at least 15 times with no answer.
Ashley was totally perplexed as to how her girlfriend's diamond necklace could be hanging on a pawn shop mannequin.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTWmqm3Chx
She rushed inside the store hoping to find some answers.The dark atmosphere of the shop was cold, uninviting and somehow sinister. She approach the counter hesitantly,
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Ashley had a creeping, crawly feeling come over her that she couldn't shake. But gathering her courage she spoke again.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsFMXMVJoSm
Hello?278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkvdJSTNpd7
"Is anyone here?"278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3S3ItSPN5V
𝘓𝘌𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘗𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘌 𝘕𝘖𝘞!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUu1PwyLfc
Cried an arresting voice, filled with wrath.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW4UFilHuXB
𝘓𝘌𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘕𝘖𝘞!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCrk3rN1lRs
Ashley was pale with fright, she nearly jumped out of her body.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjKv7CpDU5
But with the thought that her friend might be in trouble, it gave her the strength to face whoever was behind the voice.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgcdo3PxE8g
The place was dimly lit but she could see a slight figure lurking in the darkness. 278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtiwLteOhgh
I, I just need to ask you a few questions, Ashley stammered.
"It's about the diamond necklace hanging on the mannequin in the window."278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZHAQTQndHU
I need to know how you obtained it.
"Did she sell it to you?"278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqjVhOv92bs
"Are you deaf?" The voice said, didn't you see the sign on the door?278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjchK4eeMv2
"We're closed!"278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPZDrgjmeM
Ashley's kickboxing instincts begin to stir. She was a kickboxing instructor at a local gym and far tougher than she looked.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOZloHAYOV7
"Well, replied Ashley the door wasn't locked."278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsCzsRNmBF
Furthermore,
I am not leaving until I get some answers! 278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiKx6Mjz5e
Now come out this instant or I'm calling the Policia! I will make sure they thoroughly investigate how you came by the diamonds. And I intend to wait right here until they arrive.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM03izE9dYy
𝘞𝘈𝘐𝘛 𝘙𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTiA3lFO62
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Ashley thought, this dude must be on voice steroids! Abruptly, she heard a sound and seen a small figure standing at the counter, his head barely clearing it.
Ashley walked towards the figure who stepped back to see her more clearly. 278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2cLAppPEib
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"You're just a little old man, exclaimed, Ashley! She seen him discreetly putting a microphone away inside a drawer."278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9BIuK5Sso
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So that's what made me think that perhaps you were King Kong! "Ok, what is your name and how did you get my girlfriend's diamond necklace?"
"My name is of no consequence to you and we purchase the diamonds."278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiZx7BFosRW
And that is all you need to know the little man replied. Now, if I were you I would turn around and leave!
"Leave! Ashley said, well, that's not going to happen."278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YURZgNrcI
The oriental suddenly pulled out a whip threatening her with it. But, before he could react Ashley kicked it out his hands. And struck him with it.
"You bitch!"
The man cried, "Look what you've done, wiping the blood dripping from his face."
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Ashley felled to the floor, her consciousness fading. A tall oriental, robust man was leaning over her clasping a slap jack.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKsNBq9PK6Z
"What!"278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKLBRpBCS7C
What did you do that for?278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdR3JBdaVYB
"That wasn't necessary cried the small man stepping from behind the counter. Is she dead Akeno?" Now we're really gonna have trouble. It's one thing engaging in human trafficking but murder!
"Don't worry about it said, Akeno, she isn't dead and what possess you to put those damm diamonds in the window anyway."278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ944wvzzfxC
Listen shorty, if you screw up my operations you might not live to tell the tale. 278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuFfVAvvhPp
"My name isn't shorty, it's Miguel!"278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡptlE32qGWd
What shall we do now? 278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc7nkXicB35
When she wakes up, you know she is going to run straight to the Policia.
"Yes, said, Akeno, that is why we are going to sell her on the black market." Normally I would keep her but I need some fast cash. Now remove the diamonds from that mannequin and lock the door.
Miguel locked the door and returned with the diamonds. Akeno said, "Grab her legs and lets take her to the rear entrance."278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZK8ZdRRT6
They tied Ashley up and place her inside a limousine with dark tinted windows. Akeno followed in his own vehicle, the limousine pulled up to a ocean pier where a ship was waiting and the doors opened.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1FDkQPRtXP
Out stepped two husky looking male Columbians wearing black bandanas that covered their faces. They removed Ashley from the limo just as Akeno arrived.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsOw1Egeuhn
Akeno barked an order, "Get her aboard that ship now!"
The trio drew curious glances from people as they almost dragged Ashley aboard the ship. But, they probably assume she had too much to drink. 278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3ZP3uflfC0
Akeno bellowed, take her below deck and tell Santiago to come up here and pay me my money for her!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPr4WO3u0Ts
𝘗𝘰𝘸!278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn03eTVgew
A bullet suddenly went whizzing by Akeno's ear.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelE1iT1fAW
𝐏𝐨𝐰! 𝐏𝐨𝐰, 𝐩𝐨𝐰, 𝐩𝐨𝐰, 𝐩𝐨𝐰278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYdEVQBxcqJ
𝐩𝐨𝐰!
His presence was rudely greeted with a hail of bullets, one striking him in his right leg. Akeno screamed in agony, drew his Sig Sauer 45 magnum revolver and returned fire. 278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBarqYfcHl
"I've been set up cried, Akeno, you dirty bastards!" He staggered back towards the gangplank managing to escape any further injury despite the barrage of fire.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYUBblwIDAj
He threw open the door to his car, and crawled in bleeding profusely. Meanwhile, the Columbians had scurried below deck still carrying Ashley.
The loud gunfire had woken her and she was now fighting with her captors.278Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36KzybO0NU
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