CHAPTER NINE
It shouldn’t have surprised me Aiden knew the random dude who showed up at my tree house in the middle of the night. It was a small town. You didn’t have to go looking very far to find a connection to about every citizen who lived here.
After a couple of weeks of my brother’s razzing, I finally gave in and sent an email.
Dear Jasper,
Sorry about the hood over your head.
Mia
Maybe it was because I had gone so long without company while living out here in the woods on my own. Prolonged solitude probably contributed to my fixation on a man with whom I had spent less than twenty-four hours.
These woods were where I ran to shortly after the killings, seeking sanctuary from the incident that once played over and over in my mind like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie. Now
