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I’d won, which hadn’t been much of a surprise.

The old sheriff hadn’t been well liked.

But ever since, I’d had to deal with situation after situation.

One of those situations being the woman looking like she was about to commit murder for me on the screen.

Without giving it much thought, I snatched up my keys and headed out the door.

My mind was on figuring out why she’d helped me, which was why I didn’t give much thought to what time it was or how it would look getting there in the middle of the night.

I drove slow, cautious of the snow and the roads.

It took me fifteen minutes to get from Sawtooth to Jessamy’s house, and when I pulled in, I realized that I had yet to get her car to her.

Fuck.

No wonder she’d seen that horse earlier. She’d taken the shortcut to get to town from her place, and that took her right past Old Man Fugler’s place.

I’d had my eye on his horses for the past few weeks. Several other people had also reported an issue. The UPS driver and the mail lady being a few.

Jessamy had been the fourth such person to call.

Which had me curious.

Though that wasn’t the real reason that I was going to her house in the middle of the night.

I wanted to know why she’d done it.

I knocked on her door before I could talk myself out of it.

Ten

I’m glad that I have boobs. The last thing I would want is people in this town making eye contact with me.

—Jessamy to Black

Jessamy

“Die, motherfucker.”

“Ohh Toodles!”

I winced at my username coming out of Jeremiah’s creepy, robotic voice.

“Don’t say my name like that. It’s disturbing.”

A knock sounded, and I ignored it, wondering if that was yet another creepy feature that Jeremiah had added into his creeptastic horror game.

The game was pretty simple. You had five people who went through a game trying to get flags in enemy bases. Sometimes your people would get captured and tortured, and you had to save them.

Overall, it was a pretty interesting game. I bet that it did well on the market.

The knocking sounded again, and I pulled off my headphones to make sure that I was actually hearing what I thought I was hearing.

Then jumped up and stared at the door in shock.

It was well past two in the morning.