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 their

Tangle Lane where the stalking happened. Dexter said to

it and went to Tangle Lane after my

someone was really on my tail.

I think someone’s behind me.” I was freaking out, calling out over the earpiece.

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

Dexter.

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

with fear, I stopped to

out of nowhere, covering

phone slipped from my grasp. I struggled but it was all in

day of

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

tried to get in. I saw a

Even with strands covering half of his face, the word

an appropriate word for

With chiseled features and ghostly skin, he

dare make a

searching for something. Then he picked up an

fear and cautiously climbed out of

out from behind and hit me to the ground.

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