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But one should always fear being too happy, because inevitably, so to ruin it

I didn’t knohomy apart away froe, Manila envelope in his hand and tilted his head when he saw me

“You wouldn’t happen to be Jordan Kent?” he asked

“Yes?” I replied “Can I help you?”

He held out the envelope to nature required”

“Oh” I looked down at the envelope, and it did indeed have my name and address on it, but there was no return address or indicator of who it was from “Do you knoho it’s from?”

The delivery man shook his head “I just drop enature system He scanned a barcode on the back of the envelope and then handed me the sn for ned my name on the screen and then he took the system back and shoved it in his pocket “There’s a sticky on your door saying I’ll be back toard it Have a wonderful day”

“Thanks, you too”

I made my way down to my door, removed the sticky note, and entered my apartment I looked over the envelope, but was mostly confused I didn’t know anyone ould sendthat needed to come in such an official envelope, and unmarked

I thought back over all the bills I had to pay for thethe syste to make a paycheck do way more than it could I was a master at due date extensions, payment plans, and even the lesser known ‘I paid it online, if you don’t see it, it’s because there was a probleot seriously past due, the bill collector would send an i that if the bill wasn’t paid by a certain date that the service would be interrupted I gave it a look over, thinking that ht be what it was, but those always had a return address on them, because they wanted to be paid, and they weren’t typically mailed certified because they didn’t need to be

I was stumped

I grabbed a knife from the kitchen and tucked it into the corner of the envelope and slid it across the envelope’s mouth I pulled out the contents and a chill ran down my spine The top document was a blank piece of paper apart froe

‘He MuRdErEd HeR iN hEr BeD aNd yOu’Re NeXt!’

I tossed that page down to the table to see as under it, and I was horrified at what I found There were half a dozen pictures of so in the e, lavish bed Her blond hair was a h open, were totally vacant She was dead There was the remains of a dribble or foam at the corners of her mouth, and there were a couple of patches of dried blood just below her nose and strea down her chin

My stomach turned and my mind became instantly dizzy I dropped the pictures and bolted forto make it as what I had consu fro and I had no idea what to do or think I sat onto wrap ure out who could have sentso terrible

The note referred to a male My dad left s If I did have cousins, I didn’t know the the rare exception for boyfriends or siblings of friends, but that was it The only le Dad Club;to one of them I knew them They onderful parents, and wonderful lovers, they wouldn’t kill someone

Well… they could, but they would never Oliver was a police officer, and could easily cover up a murder, and then Cade could make it so the DA’s office didn’t look into it Lowe had access to tons of cars that could be used to transport soineer for the city, and Harrison was the CEO of a construction company, they all knew the city like the back of their hands and could easily dispose of a body Last, but certainly not least, Rogan was a hunter with his own cabin in the woods; the horror story writes itself