Welcome to SAVAGE! For those of you new to the story, SAVAGE is actually the sequel to RAVAGE (a completed work following the events of Twilight). The events of this story begin in the transitionary period between Twilight and New Moon, and will follow New Moon to its completion.

SAVAGE is rated M due to graphic descriptions of violence and gore, strong language, and sexual situations. Viewer discretion is advised.

PREFACE

I RAN TO MEET THE end.

It was different than before, though. It didn't matter if anyone else thought otherwise. I knew it was different. That was enough.

The first time I met the end, it was mine. This time, someone else was going to end. This time, I would have it done by my hands, and no one else's.

The trees zipped past me and the wind whipped through my ears and tangled my hair, but I wasn't moving fast enough. I could feel them at my heels, dying to close in. Ready to make the kill. They could try. I was so much faster than I'd ever been before. I would outrun them all.

I barely paid them any attention. My focus was on the flame ahead of me, the fire that burned at me every hour.

This had been months in the making – weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds. Every breath had been for this.

I was finally closing in.

I was so close.

And then I would finally be free.

V

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