Maggie cried some more once she returned home, having revealed so much of her painful past to

Alyssa all at once. She ended up falling asleep and only waking up in the afternoon the next day. Her

mother had gone to work already.

Maggie struggled to get out of bed. She really didn't feel like going out, so she called the shopowner of

the tailor shop she used to work at to order some fabrics. She planned to start making a bag for Xavier.

In all honesty, if it was someone else who'd asked Maggie to do this, she wouldn't have actually gone

through with it.

But Xavier's eyes had been so bright and his tone so earnest when he asked. Maggie couldn't help but

want to finish making it for him as fast as she could.

The tailor shop owner called Maggie in the evening and informed her that he'd sent a runner to drop off

the fabrics. The runner was about to reach her home.

Maggie thanked the shop owner profusely and patiently waited.

Sometime later, someone knocked on her door.

Maggie was eager to open it. But when she placed her hand on the doorknob, she still asked

cautiously, "Who is it?"

The person outside paused briefly before saying, "Delivery guy. I have something for you."

Delivery? Wasn't this person a runner?

Maggie grew suspicious. "I've made a lot of orders recently. Where is your delivery from? Here or out of

state?"

for yourself once you

Something was wrong.

very, very

extremely high alert, possibly due to her past abuse. She had

was

couldn't open this door

recently. Are you sure you got

another house?"

Bam!

slammed against the

She clasped her mouth tightly and

back.

Bam! Bam!

its frame as

about to call the police, a

bursting into tears out of

pinned her to the floor before she

around her throat.

help..." Maggie's face grew purple from suffocation as she

being as the air was choked out of her.

man's harsh breathing

felt the hands

of fighting. Two figures battled it out

before Maggie passed out, she heard someone

It sounded like Xavier.

still closed

the man in black

on Jasper's orders and

Xavier would bump into someone trying

to fight the man, but his skills weren't like Sean's. Pretty soon, he was

It felt like every bone in his

killer grabbed

right at Xavier's chest.

Cling!

"Fuck!"

through the air, slashing right across the

him release the cleaver. It fell to the floor

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