Beau (Shadow Force Tactical #1)

Prologue

REBEKAH

Bang!

Assaulted by the ringing in my ears, I jerked back in the chair. My heart raced as I looked beside me and found my sister slumped over in an identical chair to mine.

I frantically watched for the rise and fall of her chest, but it never came. My brain yelled something my heart didn’t want to hear.

“Alicia!” I screamed. “Alicia! You’ve got to wake up, Alicia!” Over and over, I repeated her name until the sound escaped me, and no words came out.

Why was this happening? I didn’t understand why we were picked up and thrown into the back of a van as we had been walking home from the movies.

She was only fifteen. She still had her whole life ahead of her.

There was movement on the other side of the room, and in that moment, I remembered that I wasn’t alone. Turning toward my captor, I pleaded with him, “What do you want from me? I don’t have much, but whatever I have, you can take.”

He said nothing as he moved into my line of sight. Looking into his cold, dead gray eyes, I silently begged him. This wasn’t how I imagined my life coming to an end, but as I looked toward my baby sister, I knew that my life had ended the moment she took her last breath.

“Please.” I didn’t know what I was asking for more, my life or my death. Dying right now would have been a mercy, and I would never have to continue walking this earth knowing that she would never be by my side.

I stared down the barrel of the gun and accepted my fate.

“You don’t get to take what is mine.”

Bang!