A Short Story Of Felicity Smoak: The Hunt For His Prey

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He sits in the dark, waiting like the hunter for his prey. laid his trap, He stands so unnaturally still, awake, lying in wait. Not a muscle moves. He is like a statue concealed, silent and unnoticed, part of the part of the shadow lurking in the dark. It took a lot of planning, a lot of scheming to this crucial moment. He keeps a close eye on his bait, waits till the shadows are moving apart and reveal his prey.

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Felicity Smoak was a little happy girl. She was dearly loved by their parents. She had few friends, but that did not bother her because her father was her best friend. With him, she could talk about anything. With him she did everything. He understood her like no other. With her mother, she did not have such a close relationship
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Her mother was picking up the things that were thrown around on the floor of the living room after her before she would sit down, turn on the TV and wait for her husband. Felicity read the passage with the lion and the mouse, when she heard a crash from below, shortly after a scream. Her father ordered her to hide in her closet. He left the room after he had made sure that Felicity was well hidden. Felicity lingered in the closet. She heard voices from below. Then there was a loud bang and then there was silence. When still no sound from the outside invaded her hiding place after a few minutes, Felicity summoned up all her courage and crawled out of the closet. Carefully she crept down the stairs. On the last step, she stopped, but could not find her parents. As she approached the kitchen, she heard the rhythmic, familiar sound that brought her in touch with her father and his computer work. The assumption that everything was in order, she hurried into the kitchen. She stopped abruptly in the doorway. Because the sight that greeted her was not comprehensible to her. A masked man pointing a gun at her father who typed furiously on a laptop. Her mother stood scared on the side. Her mother discovered her

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