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.

my death. I was back pacing Flare Alley at night. Still

Flare Alley but Tangle Lane where

for it and went to Tangle Lane after my

time, someone was really

behind me.” I was freaking out, calling out over the

Nobody was listening. Something felt off, so

Dexter.

Why don’t you just drop dead? Did you get Melody yesterday and tell her we’re engaged to get

fear, I stopped to

nowhere, covering my mouth and

grasp. I struggled but it was all

of the incident.

stashed in a big wooden crate, the kind for fragite china with slits

I saw a

saw his face. Pale skin, long and unkempt hair. Even with strands covering half of his

that “stunning” is an appropriate

of glacier blue eyes, With chiseled features and ghostly

I didn’t dare

for something. Then he picked up an ave from the corner and dragged it out.

my mouth in fear and cautiously climbed out of the crate, trying to escape.

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