Chapter TwentySix

Next morning.

My alarm startled me from a restless sleep I didn't even know I had fallen into till now.

As I sat up, my heart hammered, the events of last night surged back with a panic like it never left.

Disoriented, I looked about and for a moment I couldn't remember where I was. But then the sight of my cute, familiar bedroom steadied me, even if it did not help to calm the strain coiling in my chest.

The picture.

My breath seized as I recalled the picture in the envelope. Still laying on the nightstand where I had left it.

Just what's happening to me?

I crossed to the window and peeked outside, kinda expecting to see someone hiding in the shadows, but the scene below was very normal.

A few neighbors walked their dogs, and a couple of kids were already on their way to school, their laughs drifting up to me.

Everything looked peaceful, quiet, as if I wasn’t being watched, as if I hadn’t gotten that scary message.

But I had.

And the picture was proof that whoever it was, a