Last week, a stranger handed Alyssa a warning on a cocktail napkin:
FOLLOW ME IF YOU WANT TO LEARN WHO IS PLANNING TO KILL YOU.
As you can probably guess... she followed. Will you?
Looking at the napkin the stranger had left, Alyssa considered her options. She could just walk out the front door and hope that this was all in her head, that there wasn't some shadowy figure out to get her. Or she could follow the stranger out the back and see if her paranoia was correct.
Only one of those options was going to let her sleep at night. Gathering her courage and praying for a little luck, she walked to the back door.
Waiting for her in the alley was a horrifying sight. Laying in a pool of his own blood, with multiple stab wounds in his back, was her ex-boyfriend, Kyle. Alyssa wanted to turn and run, but fear kept her rooted to the ground. She couldn't take her eyes off Kyle's lifeless form. Staring at him, she noticed something crumbled in his right hand. Fighting every instinct to flee, she walked forward and took the piece of paper from
him. Smoothing out the creases, she saw a note, with the date circled at the top:
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