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.

pacing Flare Alley at night. Still no sign of

mixed up. It wasn’t Flare Alley but Tangle Lane where the stalking happened. Dexter

for it and went to

really on my

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

was their goofing around. Nobody was listening.

Dexter.

a rest? 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

I

of nowhere, covering my mouth and nose.

struggled but it was all in vain. Then

of the

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

tried to get in. I saw

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

is an appropriate word

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

I didn’t dare

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

in fear and cautiously climbed out of

someone knocked me out from behind and hit me to the ground.

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