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Chapter One

Someone had been in her apartment

There were no obvious signs It looked as spotless as ever Nothing appeared to be out of place The door had been locked The alarm set No one else would be able to tell

But someone had been in her apartment

The forks were in the wrong spot All of her cups were turned around, so the handles faced to the left instead of the right Reagan opened the fridge, her breathing too fast as she saw the contents had been rearranged The butter was on the top shelf instead of the bottoie crisper And her hu on the door

She shut the fridge door, stepping back slowly until she bu to the floor, her legs too weak to hold her anyed her knees up to her chest

Oh, God Oh, God

What was she going to do?

Dots danced in front of her eyes and she rested her forehead on her upturned knees, trying to calm herself

No No, I can’t fall apart

She couldn’t afford to lose it now She needed to keep her shit together She needed a plan She was always in control Even when she was playing at Club Decadence, she never truly let go She pretended to, pretended to fully submit But completely trust someone else with her safety?

Never

The only person she could truly rely on was herself She had to protect herself

Doing a daht noasn’t she? She felt about as weak as a babe and just as vulnerable

She didn’t understand any of this Who would do this to her? And why? She had to figure this out before she went totally insane

They’d been in her space

Reagan bit back the cry that threatened to escape Crying wasn’t going to help

One breath Two She had to think Three times Three times someone had been in her apart and called the police

They didn’t believe her

She supposed she couldn’t blame them Oh, they hadn’t said it to her face, but she’d heard theht she was crazy

And they were right Reagan wasn’t like other people She was a bit OCD In her space, everything had its own place Everything had to be a certain way She had problems with social interactions She oftenBut she wasn’t stupid, in fact, she was daent She knew her flaws

No one lived here but her, so what did ithad to be just so?

This was her space, damn it

Anger stirred So to screith her mind And they knew exactly how toobvious to anyone else