Deadly Game of Prey

Prologue

Liam

It's a thin line that keeps people from becoming killers.

Ethical boundaries designed by society to teach us right from wrong.

Rules that tell us what we can do,

what we shouldn't do,

and what we must never do.

But what no one tells you is how easy it is to cross that line.

They don't talk about everything that can turn an ordinary person into a killer.

Instead, they focus on what it means to be a monster.

Someone who preys on the innocent.

Someone who hurts without remorse.

They make you believe monsters are born different.

They conveniently ignore the fact that most of the time,

you started out innocent, too.

And if you think about it,

it's easy to cross that line.

One accident.

A traumatic childhood.

People who were supposed to protect you.

Everything that could have kept you on the other side of the line,

with the people who keep their hands clean of blood,

was working against you.

And just like that,

you wake up a decade later,

and you've been pulled so deep into a game that you have no idea how to escape.

A deadly game that no one truly survives,

except those who make the rules.