Prologue

Elise Pov.

Death is something we take lightly.We know we are born and we grow old and eventually we die, but this known fact is something we don't pay much attention to.I mean we know we will die, but we just believe in our hearts that our time of death is far away.Somewhere in distant future, so distant that it doesn't deserve our attention.I wasn't any different than you, yet here I am, at the age of 21,lying on the floor of my kitchen, trying to hold the gaping wound of my stomach where I was stabbed, not once, but thrice.The pain, god, the agony of being stabbed is something you can't explain.Its the worst pain ever.Its like your nerve endings are on fire

.My vision started blurring, and somewhere in the back of my mind, i knew it was because of blood loss.Or maybe it was the pain?Every breath that i was taking felt like it was taking too much energy, too much effort.

"Oh god,noooo", i heard a voice say.

Thinking was taking too much effort too, but somehow I knew it was Chase.Chase,my Chase was here.

He would try his best to save me, I knew that.But somewhere in my heart i knew that those were the last moments of my life.That I was going to die.

I wanted to tell Chase so much, tell him how much I loved him.And i wanted to warn him.Warn him that the man with the hood was still in the house.That he was still there.He could try to harm Chase.

I tried to speak,but no words left my mouth . Infact,I didn't even have the energy to open my mouth and before i knew it, my eyes closed and I lost consciousness.If i had been aware of what was happening, i may have felt the heat of the fire.But luckily, i would never know that my body was on fire.