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A scream shot out of me when his arm connected with ain and again My keys fell fro the floorboards to find them

Glass showered over me with his final blow His hand encoh the brokenand unlocked the door

"What’s the chance that I run into you before leaving this shitty little town, huh?"

Glass tore into my stomach as he yankeddown as hard as I couldto reach the other door handle, desperate for an escape

"Letthe handle

"Why? I did nothing to you, yet I foundyou that night, but you’re just like every other wo the thick black leggings I was thankful I wore In one painful et what I have coentleripped the band of my panties, and th, I yankedhis hold as blood gushed froer door and scra into the dense forest beside the road I kneas close toback through the heavy snow It was bitterly cold;around h dense, thorny brush I raced, oing in the right direction Rows of fat pine trees blocked the path, and in desperation, I slipped between thes, and a frozen branch sliced intoand body tre cackle

"You can’t hide out here, Cassandra! You’ll freeze to death before you find help, because I’ht!"

I ran faster, tripping over a hidden pile of rocks covered by the snow It didn’t slow

Kurt’s voice was a constant, his words only growing angrier and nastier as he spouted out exactly what I had co to me The man was out of his mind--worse than a menace to society He was psychotic!

Finally, hope was near My house I wasn’t sure if Kurt knew I lived there or if he’d only followed me froan’s, aside from the off chance that Natasha was back, but she’d be little help

I needed un

The instant my body collided with the back door, I scrambled for the small porcelain bird to the side that held an extra key, and with shaky hands, slid it into the lock

"Where you going?" Kurt voice washed over er a yell Still, I wasn’t looking back to see The knob turned and I pushed myself inside, then twisted the lock back in place, only to coh the glass

"Well, this will be even better--I won’t have to freezeyou!"

I stepped back, eyes wide in terror as his foot connected with the door There was no ti

Tears heating my eyes, I raced intoaround under rasp the box and pull it out

The shattering of glass echoed through the roo my body as I yanked open my side-table drawer and dumped it on the floor