Prologue

The girl lay on the bed, bleeding from numerous wounds. She looked almost unconscious. Very slowly she moved. She had only moved an inch or so when she moaned in pain. The man cocked his head slightly. She seemed to relax, her whole body shutting down to stop feeling the pain. The man moved over to her and sat on the edge of the bed. He drew a knife and turned her head away from him. Up until that moment he had been very careful not to mark her face. Carefully, he placed the knife onto her cheek. Suddenly, she kicked out and threw him across the room. He hit the opposite wall with a sickening thunk. She got up, furious but in pain. She ignored the pain as she stalked over to the man. There was a small cut on her face where the knife had slipped. She pulled him up and slammed his head against the wall. "You will regret that up until the last painful minute of your life, which I fully intend to be a minute in the very near future and one I see." She hissed before throwing him across the room, violently. He hit the furthest wall and blacked out for several seconds. When he came to, she was holding a knife and pressing him to the floor.