Prologue
I ran and ran and ran until I could go no longer, I collapsed on the ground right there, I then prayed. I prayed to anything that was out there, that may have cared even a sliver for me, that they would just kill me and get it over with, and never find that precious life that I was now trying to save with mine. I already knew that I was to die, but the security in knowing that maybe, just maybe, there might be something out there that will save my little girl, gave me a kind of peace in myself that didn't make me scared to die. I could hear them coming through the trees now…any minute and they would be on me.
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No other thought came to the young woman as the vampire ended her life, painlessly, and effortlessly.
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