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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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It suddenly dawned on her where she had seen it! Around the neck of her best friend that she was traveling with!218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjSVJXFShr
Shauna!218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8nf4uzVoPU
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.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSumO9wkK3P
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.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMVkOnkZTR
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"Is anyone here?"218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoHoMXsCLke
𝘓𝘌𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘛𝘏𝘐𝘚 𝘗𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘌 𝘕𝘖𝘞!218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWygXbEadCe
Cried an arresting voice, filled with wrath.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTiJpw6zy4u
𝘓𝘌𝘈𝘝𝘌 𝘕𝘖𝘞!218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfvlAt6hJ4w
Ashley was pale with fright, she nearly jumped out of her body.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsBT4kArf8Q
But with the thought that her friend might be in trouble, it gave her the strength to face whoever was behind the voice.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXKrD3BinI
The place was dimly lit but she could see a slight figure lurking in the darkness. 218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYfO8mCijw
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."218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFZq7ym4zHe
I need to know how you obtained it.
"Did she sell it to you?"218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfJVHaTdVNQ
"Are you deaf?" The voice said, didn't you see the sign on the door?218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrGmM0G0Jp
"We're closed!"218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhRCZiWBjPP
Ashley's kickboxing instincts begin to stir. She was a kickboxing instructor at a local gym and far tougher than she looked.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrOPj9NnmyN
"Well, replied Ashley the door wasn't locked."218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiECIaY1yMl
Furthermore,
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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.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL0t2mbt68W
𝘞𝘈𝘐𝘛 𝘙𝘐𝘎𝘏𝘛 𝘛𝘏𝘌𝘙𝘌!218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6mNKExC9dy
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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. 218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2hhwsNQcgP
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"You're just a little old man, exclaimed, Ashley! She seen him discreetly putting a microphone away inside a drawer."218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoclNho4s2
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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."218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ19laYrSCnX
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."218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMTBD44vXv
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.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO8FpL3xhgu
"What!"218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhORquVhnwk
What did you do that for?218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE1e8J881Fw
"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."218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfqfszzFsLa
Listen shorty, if you screw up my operations you might not live to tell the tale. 218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN7oQASfEmM
"My name isn't shorty, it's Miguel!"218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VnYrxDlNj
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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."218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiUef7kvlU
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.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJebz0OvPp
Out stepped two husky looking male Columbians wearing black bandanas that covered their faces. They removed Ashley from the limo just as Akeno arrived.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1HOrMOSaa3
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. 218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNnPTXoFqvU
Akeno bellowed, take her below deck and tell Santiago to come up here and pay me my money for her!218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRpeAabBd5
𝘗𝘰𝘸!218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBEHpANtZQ7
A bullet suddenly went whizzing by Akeno's ear.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNLQzzo7ky
𝐏𝐨𝐰! 𝐏𝐨𝐰, 𝐩𝐨𝐰, 𝐩𝐨𝐰, 𝐩𝐨𝐰218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpFIXo1qq2
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. 218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPI5F1y48p
"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.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg1wwCUcNrI
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.218Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9IuP1ZetIB
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