Prologue:
Prologue:
Running
Emily could feel the
cold wind blowing across her face as she took long strides down the beach. She
started to pick up the pace and soon the world seem to fade around her, it was
like she was the only person that existed. Running had always been Emily
Lehman's escape. She ran in high school to avoid the taunts from the other kids,
she ran in collage to escape a bad relationship and now she was running to
escape her thoughts. Emily could feel her heart pounding in her chest but she
kept running, not yet ready to face reality. She pushed further and further down
the beach until finally she had no choice but come back to reality as she
crashed onto the warm sand. Emily lay there catching her breath, for a moment
her thoughts were still at bay, the adrenaline from the run still flowing
through her veins. It didn't last long. Everything she had been trying to escape
from came rushing back. It had been a month since the "incident" happened. A
month since her old partner, Max Brady, had showed up at CNU. A month since she
took on the Kyle Marshall case. A month since her best friend Lia Mathers was
poisoned and almost died. A month since Emily went to the farmhouse in the
middle of nowhere and got taken captive. A month since she watched Marshall
rape, torture and murder an innocent girl. A month since Marshall had raped and
almost killed Emily. Lastly, it had been a month since Emily shot Marshall.
Emily could feel the tears flowing down her cheeks. She wiped them away and
sighed. No matter what Emily did those thoughts had a way of coming back into
her head, no matter how far she tried to burry them. She closed her eyes, trying
to stop thinking about it and her mind drifted off to tomorrow, it would be her
first day back to work since the whole incident, Cheryl had insisted on her
taking some time off. Internal affairs had requested a meeting with her and it
was scheduled for tomorrow morning. Apparently IA had opened up an investigation
over the Marshall case and how certain things were handled. Emily opened her
eyes, it was just starting to get duskish. Sitting on the beach in the dark
wouldn't have bothered her before Marshall but now she was terrified to be out
after dark. She got up from the warm sand and started to run back down the
beach.