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  Mac shook, the knife weighed him down. His arm begged him to give up.

  Montgomery lunged forward to grab Lora, his hand wrapped around her bicep. When he reached her, he let out a broken cry. Lora wriggled out of his grip, quick to dart back into the hallway.

  “Mac,” his Mom said. “Mac, are you alright?”

  His eyes dropped to the knife in his hand, an extension of the man in front of him. Blood dripped from the new wound and began to puddle on the ground between the two. Mac removed his hand from the handle of the knife and took a step back with raised hands. The knife stayed there, stuck in Montgomery’s abdomen.

  Mac took another step back and Montgomery fell forward onto the ground, only driving the knife further into his body. The blood fanned out around him. It touched Mac’s perfect white shoes. He jumped back.

  “I—.” Mac couldn’t find the words he was searching for. “Accident,” was all he managed to get out. His eyes found Lora’s, cowered behind the door frame, half peering in on the scene. He looked at his mother’s, wide, frozen.

  “I couldn’t let him hurt her,” he said, unable to take his eyes off his blood red hands.

  About the Author

  Megan Prevost is an author who enjoys writing tragic young adult fiction. She is currently working on her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She has been published in Scarlet Leaf Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Fiction on the Web. In her free time, she takes pictures of lighthouses and cries over stray cats.

  Connect with her on her Website and her Twitter.

 

 

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