Rocky Start

Rocky Start

Author: Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer Listening Length: 11h 50m
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Think of the movie RED. Retired covert operatives living in a small town in the Smoky Mountains. What could go wrong? From the bestselling authors of Agnes and the Hitman and the Liz Danger series. Rose Malone’s landlord and employer, Ozzie Oswald, just died, and now she has no idea if she has a job or if she and her ...

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CHAPTER 61

I managed to slice my hands up while cutting the zip tie with the broken pieces of teacups, but I also managed to not open any major veins. It was hard to tell how much progress I’d made because twisting my wrists to cut the ties also cut off my circulation and my fingers were numb, but I figured I was pretty close.

I tried to slow my breathing, the way my mom had taught me. “Panic makes you hyperventilate,” she’d told me a million times. “If you see stripes, breathe in for four counts, hold for four counts, out for four counts, hold for four counts. Box breathing.”

I breathed in for four counts.