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My breath came in ragged gasps, each step through the snow slower than the last. The cold bit my skin, and my legs

screamed from the effort, but I couldn't stop. Not yet. I pushed myself forward, heart pounding in my chest as I glanced back over my shoulder. The flashlight beam sliced through the darkness, closer than it had been before. Eric was right behind me.

I stumbled, the uneven ground and thick snow pulling at my feet like they were trying to swallow me whole. My lungs burned with each breath of freezing air. I had to keep moving, I had to find a way out of this nightmare. But the snow was so thick and the cold so deep that Then, I heard it.

A deafening crack tore through the air, and in the same

instant, a searing pain shot through my right leg. I gasped, stumbling forward, then crumpled to the ground. I screamed, clutching my leg, the agony so intense I thought I might pass out. Blood soaked through my fingers as I pressed them to the wound, my mind unable to process what had just happened.

I'd been shot.

He'd shot me.

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"Fuck!" I cried, pain radiating up my leg with every frantic heartbeat. The snow beneath me was stained red. My thoughts were spinning, pain blotting out everything else, but through the haze of agony, I heard his footsteps approaching. Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

tears, and saw the beam

through clenched teeth, the words barely audible through the pain that was crashing over me in

smirked, his eyes gleaming with something dark and twisted. The gun in his hand gleamed under the beam of the flashlight. He stared at me for a moment before, with no warning, he

snapped back, pain exploding in my skull. Stars danced in my vision as everything spun around me. For a moment, I wasn't sure which way was up. My mind screamed at me to move, to fight, to do anything, but my body wouldn't listen. I felt his hands on me then, rough and unyielding, as he grabbed

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around me felt distant, as if I was floating

low and cold. His breath was hot against my ear as he carried me back toward the

a sob that threatened to escape my throat. Every step he took sent a jolt of pain through my leg, but I refused to give him the satisfaction of hearing met scream

dripping with disdain. "But it's okay.

leg throbbed, my head pounded, and my mouth tasted like copper. I blinked, trying to focus, but my vision was still blurry, and my head felt like it was stuffed with cotton. Slowly,

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landed on Eric, who was crouched in front of me, his focus

me

swallowed hard, my throat dry and scratchy.

most obvious thing in the world. "I told you, didn't I?

heart hammering against my ribs. He was insane. Completely and utterly

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