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Chapter 1

Kate

I can’t hear his footsteps over the heartbeat inReady to addcollection on my arms and face

My breaths feel too loud Ready at any ure out where I as me back to his place No one will help Not even the police

Because he is the police

Not to mention that he’s my ex Not like he accepts the fact that I broke up with hipast the cosmetics section on the first floor of the department store, I knehy he was here Somehow he’d followed me And I kneouldn’t leave without me at his side

What would happen after is soain when I would cry after he slapped me so hard that I swear I felt my teeth rattle in my mouth

“See what happens if you try to leave o anywhere”

Despite his threats, I'd gotten free of his grip a week ago Now I’ skinny jeans advertised at 30 off for their spring sale There’s only one front door I don’t haveto have to make a run for it

But run where? Trevor knohere I live He knows all the friends he cut ether I foolishly brought hi Before he showed his true side When I thought he was just a teddy bear

Instead, he turned out to be a grizzly, tearing away at htest provocation

“Can I help you find anything?” A less than helpful sales attendant asks fro me to nearly leap out of my skin at the sudden intrusion into h And another peek outside reveals no sign of Trevor

While the adrenaline is still puht down the escalator But thefrom above Our eyesall his malice access into my heart

He’s going to catchto have his ith , he’ll never let ain

I’m now on the fourth floor, which is apparentlydown the steps, hoping to keep ahead of Trevor, but hope failed me each and every time before, so why should it help me now?

I need to be unpredictable It’s the only way I’ll be able to avoid him I can’t outrun him, but I can outsmart him

Maybe

So I dash across the floor, and into the first shop I find I wasn’t planning on bringing anyone else in on ht, but as I pass by a well-dressed businesse, I latch onto his arm and hiss out a pathetic, “Help me”

Chapter 2