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

Tangle Lane where the stalking happened. Dexter said

fell for it and went to Tangle Lane

time, someone was really on my tail.

me.” I was freaking

got was their goofing around. Nobody was listening. Something felt off, so

Dexter.

snapped at me. “Phoebe, will you ever give it 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

I stopped to

nowhere,

it was all in vain. Then I quickly lost consciousness.

day of

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

get in. I saw a tall fours in a

unkempt hair. Even with strands covering half of his face, the word “stunning‘ crossed my mind.

that “stunning” is an appropriate word for a

got a pair of glacier blue eyes, With chiseled features and ghostly skin,

I didn’t dare make

Then he picked up an ave from the corner and dragged

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

someone knocked me out from behind and hit me

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