𝐒𝐘𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐈𝐒
𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇,── you don't truly know anyone you meet, a friend, family member, or even your love interests could be nothing but a lie.
Stepping over the caution tape, taped from wall to wall, entering the horrifically gory crime scene. Without question, Detective Wilmarie Denise could only imagine what truly lies within a merciless setting.
The victim's body sat perfectly still, stiff in a chair, blood covering the depth of her face. The scraping of her knuckles and the blood under her nail could only have given signs that the victim didn't have an issue fighting back.
On the right arm of the victim, there was an engraved crest that had been burned into her skin. It was unquestionable that this was a branding of the murderous victims that trafficked these innocent girls.
Detective Denise stood, her arms crossed deeply over her chest, listening to the shuttering of the camera. The small whispers and whimpering from the other side of the crime scene cautioned tape.
These crimes had been consecutively happening all over the streets of Manhattan. It had become something regular to her.
Whomever the killer was had no heart, and was nothing less than a monster.
Annie Bloom is an average girl. She's in college, has a best friend, works, and studies. Yet one day she finds herself attacked, hospitalized, and nearly killed. Her best friend, Will, is certain it has to do with the guy she just started dating. Is Will jealous? Could her new boyfriend be involved? Or is it someone else entirely? Annie must find out quickly because every day could be her last.
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I could feel nothing but the pain.
I felt every hit in excruciating detail with each erratic, painful heartbeat as my world became reduced to a series of agony. I struggled to breath through the broken ribs that constricted my airflow like a two-ton concrete slab had fallen on me. The blood from the blows to my head rolled down my face in waves.
My arm was twisted at an impossible angle, yet I couldn't scream because my mouth would not open. I could feel the kicks coming at me from all directions, and as I received another one to the head I knew this was the end for me and my heartbeat slowed. The stab wound was bleeding too much for me to survive.
When they left me for dead my eyes began to droop and the last thing I saw through fuzzy tunnel-like sight was a man running towards me before one final rattling breath coursed through my broken body and my heart stopped beating.