Darkness. It surrounded her.
She looked down at the hand on her arm, then at the shirtless man beside her. “Zane.”
Zane’s eyes flashed open.Not at any sound. At the movement beside him. The dipping of the mattress. The rustle of the sheets.
He turned his head to see Bonnie’s head moving, brows tugged together in a deep frown.
He sat up. “Bonnie.”
She continued to throw her head from side to side.
He grabbed her arm gently but firmly. “Bonnie, wake up.”
Her eyes flashed open and she shot up in bed. Her breathing was ragged, and her gaze darted around the dark room beforethey zeroed in on his hand. When she looked at him, she frowned. “Zane.”
“Hey, Bon.” He kept his voice soft. “Everything okay?”
Her gaze shifted between his eyes. “He called me a mouse.”
“Who?”
“Dean. When we fought, that last night, he called me a mouse. He told me I was weak and passive and worthless.” A shudder ran down her spine. “It was the last thing he ever said to me.”
The pieces clicked together. The headless mouse delivered to her doorstep hadn’t just been to scare her…it was a threat.Shewas the mouse.
Motherfucker.
“Who knows?” Zane asked quietly.
She blinked. “What?”
“Who knows that he called you that?”
“Well…Maisie, because she was outside. And there were a handful of other people too. But I also told the police, so it’s probably in a police report, which I’m sure his parents got a copy of.”
“We’ll tell Jesse in the morning.”
She glanced up at him. “Did he go to my apartment?”
“Yeah. He wanted to see you, but I told him you were sleeping. He’s going to drop by in the morning.”
“I bet he told Noah.”
He absolutely told Noah. Exactly why Zane had gotten a text from her brother, asking if she was okay. That’s all it had said. He’d replied yes, expecting follow-up questions. They hadn’t come.
“Tell me about it,” he said softly.
“My dream?”
“Yeah.”
She pulled her legs up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them. “It was our graduation party. I found Dean in bed with Maisie. I was so angry. I ran outside, and he followed. We fought and I left without him. It was the last time I saw him alive.”
“Did Maisie talk to you after?”
She shook her head. “No. We were both at his funeral but didn’t speak to each other. I didn’t even know she’d married Dean’s brother until I came back.”
“Could it be her?”
