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.

I was back pacing Flare Alley at night. Still

Flare Alley but Tangle Lane where the stalking happened. Dexter said to head there after work tonight. We’ll set

to Tangle

really on my

I was freaking out, calling out over the

was their goofing around. Nobody was listening. Something

Dexter.

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

with fear, I stopped to explain.

out of nowhere, covering my mouth and nose.

grasp. I struggled but it was all in vain. Then I

of the

came to, I found myself stashed in a big wooden crate, the kind for fragite china with slits that

tried to get in. I saw

face. Pale skin, long and unkempt hair. Even with strands covering half of his face, the word “stunning‘ crossed

an appropriate word

glacier blue eyes, With chiseled features and ghostly skin, he

I didn’t dare

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

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

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