Heavy pants of breath echoed throughout the previously calm, quiet night. A young woman in her early 20s frantically sprinted towards what she believed to be freedom and away from an almost invisible predator. A monster unable to be detected by the naked human eye.
As she ran, her lungs expelling air far more quickly than taking it in, she rounded a corner in hopes of having finally escaped her pursuer.
“Okay, breathe, Anna,” She said to herself.
She slowed down from her sprint to a brisk walk. She leaned up against the nearby brick wall, breathing heavily, legs quivering from running so fast for so long. Her chest heaved with each intake of breath, tears streaming down her cheeks as she attempted to process what was happening to her.
Anna’s head swiveled as if it had been fixed on a ball joint as she attempted to get an accurate gauge of her surroundings.
‘Am I finally safe?’ She wondered.
Taking one last deep breath, Anna cautiously stepped out from her hiding spot. But not out to safety as she had previously hoped for. Instead, Anna found herself taking a half step from the corner of the building that she had been staking out next to. But no more than that as a near-invisible gust of wind whisked past her back, taking her entire head along with it.
The sheer force of the impact caused the girl’s freshly severed head to smack into the adjacent wall behind the rest of the body, crushing the front of the skull. The headless body then proceeded to silently fall forward. It landed on the dry pavement with a loud thud.
And thus, no one had ever seen or heard from her ever again as her body lay headless in a back alleyway, a puddle of her own blood slowly becoming more and more prominent around the corpse.
Author's Note
Okay, so, I know it's short, but here is the new prologue for Skirts and Badges. I wrote it a while ago, and honestly meant to add it here, but I'd forgotten about it. But here it is. Probably not the most exciting, but yeah. Feedback is always appreciated, and thank you for being patient with this train wreck.
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Skirts and Badges
RomanceColeson Taylor is the best in the business. But when a series of gruesome murders leaves his boss with no choice but to call in some outside help, in comes Kadyn Mitchell. But what happens when Coleson's stubborn nature and his tragic past collide...
