Chapter 16

RAE

I watched the blood swirl down the drain until the water ran clear. A part of me had hoped that my body had been cut up and it was my blood that had covered me. But there wasn’t a single cut on my body. Not even on my feet.

The water turned cold before I finally pulled myself back together and finished showering. My mind was going a mile a minute. Had I fallen into a puddle of blood? That seemed unlikely. Maybe I had disturbed those things that had chased me while they had been killing someone. Again, that seemed impossible. I would have become a victim, too.

Fear hadn’t left me the entire time. I should have gone to the police. I needed them to lock me up if I had done something wrong. Perhaps then I would stop sleepwalking. Perhaps my mind would stop unravelling.

I looked outside my window for the millionth time before I flopped onto my couch again. It was closer to noon, but the stranger hadn’t returned as he’d promised.

Rhys.

It was a firm name for a strong man. I vaguely r