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.

death. I was back pacing Flare

got it mixed up. It wasn’t 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

for it and went to Tangle Lane

someone was really on my

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

was their goofing around. Nobody was listening. Something felt

Dexter.

Why don’t you just drop dead? Did you 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, I’ll make

fear, I stopped to

then hands came out of nowhere, covering

from my grasp. I struggled but it was all in vain. Then I quickly

of the incident.

wooden crate, the kind for fragite china with slits that let me see

get in. I saw a

face. Pale skin, long and unkempt hair. Even with strands

is an appropriate

and ghostly skin, he was

dare make

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

in fear and cautiously climbed

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