creating something delicious that she could take to the store for customers to enjoy.
Although she often baked in her tiny apartment, if she wanted to do more than one goodie she usually headed to her aunt’s place, where Liz had the best equipment to create culinary magic. Surely working on some special cupcakes and maybe cinnamon rolls would take her mind off Frank Delaney. Just a little companionship—he’d said that was all he was looking for—but she knew companionship could quickly change to something deeper and she just wasn’t willing to open herself up ever again.
The sight of the new solid door at the top of her stairs gave her a sense of welcome relief as she fit her key first into the doorknob lock, and then the dead bolt lock.
She opened the door and walked inside, a white envelope sliding in beneath her feet. It must have been on her threshold and she’d kicked it in when she’d entered.
She stared down at it. What now? Maybe it was a note from Minnie, she told herself as she leaned down to pick it up. There was no writing on the front, nothing to indicate where it had come from, although it was sealed tight.
Her heart began to thud a rapid rhythm as she slid her thumbnail under the seal. She wasn’t sure why, but even before she got the envelope open she felt an overwhelming, inexplicable sense of dread.
Inside the envelope was a single sheet of white paper, neatly folded. She pulled it out and opened it, then gasped and allowed it to drop from her fingers.
Stumbling backward, she fumbled in her pocket and pulled out the small piece of cardboard Frank had given her. She fumbled her cell phone from her purse and punched in the number. “Frank, could you come over here? I think I have another problem,” she said when he answered.
Before he could reply she hung up and stepped over the note to relock both locks on her door. She then stood in the center of the room, waiting for Frank to come and make sense of the note that sent chills racing up and down her spine.
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