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?"
once
Something was wrong.
very, very
on extremely high alert, possibly due to her past abuse. She had
the door was
this door
online recently. Are you sure you got the right place? Why
another house?"
Bam!
slammed
and trembled in fear. She clasped her
back.
Bam! Bam!
began shaking in its frame as
the police, a
into


man had already pinned her to the floor before she could see his face.
around her throat.
suffocation as she
was choked out of
of the man's harsh breathing
Maggie felt the hands on her
was the sound of fighting. Two figures battled
before Maggie passed out, she
It sounded like Xavier.
Maggie still closed her eyes
attacking the man
to check up on Maggie on Jasper's orders and also to give
knew Xavier would bump into someone trying to kill
the man, but his skills weren't like Sean's. Pretty soon, he was beaten
It felt like every bone in his
you both then!" The killer grabbed a cleaver from the kitchen
right at Xavier's chest.
Cling!
"Fuck!"
butterfly knife suddenly cut through the air, slashing right across the
the cleaver. It fell
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