Ask Aliss

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prologue / Too deep in…

How did it ever come to this? Something so innocent? Somethingthat I began to help people—not put me in danger. I am too far in…I couldn’t see if there was any escape from this. Would there be? The undeniable answer left my heart racing, coursing the fear through my veins.

There wouldn’t be. No escape. Now in this moment, all the memories flooded back, bled into my thoughts, running wild. All those emails seemed harmless at first. Like all the others. But not like all the others. I have never dealt with something like this.

And now I am paying the price for it. My replies, my given advice that I thought would help her—not end up killing me. But the thing was: I have nowhere to go or run. I just couldn’t leave home. I couldn’t tell Sheri about this. She wouldn’t believe me, even if I show her the emails. She didn't know about my “Ask Aliss,” thing that I did just to help out other people.

She would probably ground me and truly then I wouldn’t be able to run. I could run away, but I just couldn’t leave her for this maniac to kill. I couldn’t live with myself if I did that. I had no idea what to do. And Iam sitting here watching the clock ticking. Time is running out…