Chapter 5

Four days before my death.

Wearing a red dress, I was shaking like a leaf in the alley.

“Act natural,” came Dexter’s voice through the earpiece.

I walked back and forth from one end of the alley to the other, but no shady characters in sight.

“Dexter, maybe the killer Isn’t Into her, eh?”

“Ha–ha, even a murderer has standards.”

The laughter of Dexter and his cronies echoed in my earpiece.

Tears welled up in my eyes as I crouched on the ground. For a moment, I was dying for a good

cry.

That night, I didn’t manage to balt the killer.

They didn’t let up on me, though.

was back pacing Flare Alley at night. Still no sign of their target.

Flare Alley but Tangle Lane where the stalking happened. Dexter said to head there after work tonight. We’ll set up an ambush, so just holler if you

for it and went to Tangle Lane after

was really

someone’s behind me.” I was

was listening. Something

Dexter.

get Melody yesterday and tell her we’re engaged to get her off your back? Let me tell you, if anything happens to her on her own,

with fear, I stopped

out of nowhere, covering

struggled but it was all in vain. Then I

day of

to, I found myself stashed in a big wooden crate, the kind for fragite

get in. I saw a

unkempt hair. Even with strands covering

appropriate word for a

he got a pair of glacier blue eyes, With chiseled features and ghostly skin, he was obviously mixed–race. And he reeked of

dare

around, he seemed to be searching for something. Then he picked up an

cautiously climbed out of

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