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Pinching the edge of the obstruction, she pulled out a white envelope.
Blank.
Like before.
She slid out the card with, again, a black rose, hand drawn across the thick paper.
Her insides went ice-cold as she flipped it open and read the message:
~For the day of vengeance is in my heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. Isaiah 63:4~
Dropping the card as if it had burned her, she watched in horror as it fluttered to the floor.
He’d been in her house.
Riffled through her underwear drawer.
Left his sick missive and . . .
Oh, God, he could still be inside.
CHAPTER 8
Kristi froze.
Didn’t move a muscle.
Every sense heightened, her nerves stretched to the breaking point, she concentrated, listening, peering through the doorway to the rest of the house.
Nothing.
No sound of breathing.
No movement she could detect.
Nothing she could see.
Was whoever left the card hiding in her house?
But no . . . surely she would have noticed.
Her mind whirled backward to the previous day, the meeting this morning with Bella, the errands she’d run—a few groceries, gas for the car, stopping at the gym to cancel Jay’s membership, then coming back and heading up to the office where she’d spent most of the afternoon.
There had been rooms she hadn’t gone into—the spare bedroom that she’d thought they would convert to a nursery and the small closet-like space where Jay had made his office.
Was someone in here, even now? Watching her through a crack in a door or from behind a curtain? Silently she crept through the house, searching the extra rooms and closet.
Nothing.
She pulled the door to Jay’s office closed.
Click.
Then, again, more faintly.Click.
What?!?
She held her breath, ears straining over the jackhammer that was her heart.
