I re-read your previous submission to make sure I was up to speed... and it took me a couple reads to get a handle on what's going on in Betrayal. You introduce a number of characters and plot twists very quickly, and I think the story would benefit if you slowed it down a little and introduced things more clearly. The point that took me the longest to grasp was that Claudia is the unnamed clown from Sharp Reflections - even having just re-read Sharp, on my first read of Betrayal she seemed as if she was a completely new character.
That said, you set up a very compelling and powerful scenario in this story. I was intrigued by the setup and you left me wanting to learn more about who HE is, why and how HE recruits his (apparently unwilling) pawns, and what HIS ultimate purpose is for the people HE kidnaps. It was a stroke of diabolical brilliance to have your narrator only willing to refer to the circus' master as HE, by the way: it perfectly conveys the narrator's own sense of awestruck horror/horrified awe for this figure, and leaves the reader picturing the worst thing they can imagine.
You have definitely improved as a writer between this and OPR jam #4, too! Your descriptions are sharper and the flow of your text is better. Keep it up!