Beautiful Deadly: Betrayal Vol. 2 by Aryanna Riles Page B

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Chapter Two
    Alex stares at the empty bedroom after Chris leaves. He is gone for the second time tonight, and he didn’t even ask her if she wanted to hunt. She hasn’t gone hunting in a few days and she is very thirsty. Alex has never gone hunting by herself, but now, it seems that she has no choice. She is confident in her hunting skills, Chris made sure to teach her well. Her only fear is her speed, she hasn’t quite mastered that part yet, but she is getting there.
    Alex puts on her hunting gear and running shoes and stands at the back door. She takes a deep breath, trying to smell where something tasty might be. She catches a whiff of a boar to her left and it brings back memories. That was the first animal she had ever hunted with Chris. She takes off in a fast speed in the direction of the smell. She reaches him and breaks his neck in two, he doesn’t even get the chance to scream. Her speed has greatly improved.
    All through her meal, Alex doesn’t even know what the boar taste like. Her mind is on Chris and how it feels to lose somebody that she loves. Her distraction is to her detriment, as she is seen by two people. The first one is an old man that has been watching them for some time. She has no idea that the boar belongs to him, and that this is a trap he set up for her, to lure her to him.
    The second person to see her is one of her friends. She is hiking in the woods with a group of friends and sees a woman run by her. She wanders away from the group and arrives just as Alex finishes her meal. She sees Alex standing over the dead boar and stares in confusion.
    For the first time since her transformation, Alex doesn’t sense a human around her. So distracted she is with her thoughts that she doesn’t even hear the footsteps of the woman, as she walks over to her. She jumps when she feels hands on hers.
    “Alex? Oh my God! It’s you! What are you doing here? Are you okay?” says the woman that she recognizes as one of her classmates, Gloria.
    Alex quickly snatches her hand away and dashes off back to the house. She didn’t move fast enough because Gloria felt how cold her body is and she ran off in the opposite direction to call the police.
    Alex arrives at the house and paces the bedroom floor. “What have I done!” she says out loud. Not only has she put herself in danger, but Chris too. That was very careless of her and she knows that they will have to leave before Chris completes his mission. Another worry set in as she realizes that he will think that she did it on purpose because she doesn’t want him to find Jessica.
    About an hour after she arrives at the house, she hears footsteps in the woods. She immediately knows that it isn’t Chris because it sounds like a lot of people and they are coming towards the house. She is in the process of repacking her clothes, but she runs out of the house and into the trees before they trap her inside.
    Within minutes, their house is surrounded by police and her friends and family. Alex gasps when she sees her parents in the group. They look sad and she wonders if everything that she has ever thought about them was wrong. Maybe they really did love her, but just didn’t know how to show it.
    The police enter the house and tell everyone else to stay in the clearing. Alex watches as her mother starts sobbing in her father’s arms. Her best friend, Jane, is also with them, along with some of her other friends. The girl she ran into on her hunt is among the group, her eyes scanning her surroundings in a suspicious manner.
    A police officer walks out of the house, holding Alex’s red dress that she wore on the night she disappeared. Her mother screams and her friends all start crying.
    “Does this belong to her?” the officer asks.
    Her friends nod their heads in agreement and the police go back inside to continue their search.
    A half hour passes and the officers come back out to the door. “It would appear that she has been living