by Linda Hawley
Silence.
Letting the SIG fall from my hand, I touched my face.
Wet slime. My own blood. It was excruciatingly painful.
“Chow…Chow,” I said urgently through swollen lips, chilled with panic.
Silence.
I crawled on my hands and knees, blind, to find my friend. After several feet, I felt a man, but after touching his tie, I knew this was an assailant. I crawled in another direction.
“Chow…Chow,” I called out, barely able to speak as my face swelled.
The adrenaline was leaving my body, and agony was replacing it. Disoriented, I scraped my way in the other direction and felt an arm. Following it, my hands touched a large-faced dive watch, and knew I had found him.
Suddenly, a vicious bolt of torment shot through my middle, and the core inside me started to shift. I knew I was near passing out. My hands felt near Chow’s watch to feel for his pulse. I needed to know that he was alive.
Silence.
My consciousness was leaving, but I held onto his wrist, begging for my protector’s pulse.
The rhythm of his life was vacant.
I heard anguish erupt from my mouth, as everything started to fade away.
I lay down next to my friend—holding onto his warmth yet still present.
It was then that I heard a car screech to a stop, then footsteps approaching rapidly. I didn’t know if it was friend or foe.
Just as the world slipped away, I heard the words, “Ann, Ann!”
About the Author
The Prophecies series you’re reading was born just after I survived a near-crash in a passenger jet. Thankfully, I lived to write this trilogy; I hope you will agree. Nearly all of the technologies, conditions, and places in my books are real. The characters and their actions are fictional. I wrote The Prophecies because I had something to say. It is my hope that you will have something to say once you read it. I have written a dystopian world, but when you read the third and final book, you’ll realize that The Prophecies is about hope. I think all stories should be about hope.
Thank you for reading my stories.
Linda Hawley
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
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