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were tight and there was no way he could considering his wounds. It was almost pitiful.
    “I will tell you what though,” he continued, running a hand through thick brown hair.
    “There’s a half-moon over us… that should tell you all the kind of mercy I’m willing to offer you. For your last sight I mean.” Easily, he stooped down before nudging his fingers beneath the blindfold and pushing them off.
    He was met with wide, blinking eyes and a look of desperation.
    “Any last words?” He muttered quietly. The man beneath nodded fervently, hoping against hope. He almost laughed.
    “Too bad, McKinney. Because she didn’t get the opportunity,” he added this with a hint of rage through his voice.
    “So neither will you.”
    McKinney let out a series of desperate whines, trying to speak through the gag and even pleading with his eyes. He didn’t much care for it as he reached his hands down to grip around his head.
    McKinney let out one final cry against the cloth before his head was yanked viciously to the side and a loud crack to escape into the air.
    Silence came after the echoes disappeared, and it took a small moment of looming over the corpse before he turned around. It was done.
    There was no relief. No hope. Nothing but the silence that come with a kill and while he had been once tempted to leave him tied up and let the wolves feast on his flesh—ironically—he couldn’t really do it. Not after all this.
    With a sigh, he bent down and scooped up a handful of dirt into his hand before reaching over and pouring it over the cadaver. It was enough to cover the staring eyes.
    For a moment he stood, breaths escaping from his lungs with some difficulty.
    Eventually his eyes found the sky and he wondered for a moment if there truly was peace now waiting for him.
    His answer didn’t come in the way he had expected.
    The gentlest crack of a twig alerted him to turn into a different direction and it was instantly met with a wide and horrified stare, surrounded by a curtain of wavy brown and a pale hand pressing beneath a nose against a mouth. A woman.
    There was a moment of shock that past between the unexpected spectator and the unsuspecting murderer. A moment that passed through millions of decisions and possible choices.
    Suddenly, she let out a gasp and in that instant he felt his muscles coil. She turned, and he was already beginning to move, and she bolted.
    There was no doubt in his mind that she had seen… she had seen him murder that man.
    Why she was there at all was beyond him, but there was only one thing on his mind.
    He couldn’t let her escape. As fast as she was, he was faster.
    He would not let her escape.

 
    Chapter 5
     
    Fear made her shake inside, made her numb to the sensation of foliage slapping against her skin, scratching at her arms and yanking at her clothes.
    Ingrid wanted nothing more than to run, jump into her car, and get the hell out of this place and back to her home.
    What the hell did she just see? What the hell just happened?
    I just saw a murder… The thought filtered through her mind and slapped her with its force, making her nearly slam into a tree she was trying to dodge.
    I just saw a murder!
    This was worse than a bear, worse than any wolf… she had expected finding something else, something completely different. But she saw it. Saw a man stand over another and break his neck with his bare hands.
    In a careless moment, Ingrid glanced back over her shoulder, hoping to see nothing but trees and a dark green canopy of leaves and forest.
    Instead, she saw the man… saw the murderer running after her. And he was gaining on her.
    “Come back here!” He suddenly exclaimed at her and Ingrid let out a cry when her foot stumbled over a root in the earth.
    The cry turned into a shriek when she was unable to regain her footing and she all but slammed against the ground.
    Scrambling back up she tried to run faster, tried to maintain her breathing controlled instead of panics