Beautiful Creatures Series

Chapter 42: HEAD OF THE PACK / PROLOGUE

Rosewood California…

Mackenzie came through the back door of the house. She had left for school on time, but since she had an exam that she had not studied for, Mackenzie went to the mall for an hour, waiting until she knew both of her parents would be at work. After an appropriate wait time, she bought a drink and went home. She would spend the rest of the day watching TV and snacking. Neither of her parents would be home until after 6:00 pm, so they would never know she had skipped.

Sure, the school had the policy to call home when a student was missing from class, but at the beginning of the year, she had changed the number on her yearly file update to her cellphone. Since the call was just an automated machine, the school would never know it wasn’t her parents, and her folks would never receive the call. She was in the clear.

Walking through the front door, Mackenzie came to a sudden stop when she walked in on some stranger on his hands and knees, trying to clean up a vast pool of blood. Turning her head, she saw both her parents laying dead on the floor and rapped in the shower curtains the man on his knees had taken from two of the three bathrooms in the house.

She looked back at the man, who seemed surprised to see her. Mackenzie dropped turned to run. The stranger shot to his feet and chased after her. She ran out into the back alley and down to the main street. The man was not far behind her. She saw a city bus at the nearby bus stop loading and unloading passengers. She pushed herself faster and then forced her way onto the bus. Her school bus pass was still clipped to her bag, so the driver did not stop her. She pushed her way to the back of the bus as it pulled away, looking out the rear window at the man who had been unable to keep up. She had managed to escape.

but the killer had taken off once she got away. Mackenzie spent the next three days in the police

unlikely to get adopted, but in two years, she would be on her own, so it wasn’t so bad. With

for days. In a matter of minutes, she had lost everything: her home, her parents, and her very identity. Her life would

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Feral Colorado…

floor of the kitchen. He lay there momentarily blinded by the pain. Both his hands went to his head as if he could someone hold his scrambled brains in. He grunted in pain when he took a swift kick

wife Melissa hissed as she stood over him with the cast iron pan. She’d hit him with still in her hand. “You’re a pathetic excuse for a man. I’m seriously fucking amazed you manage to keep the pack in

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