CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
It was 11:10 when Rose jerked awake. She didn’t even remember falling asleep. She looked to the TV and saw a rerun of The Big Bang Theory. She’d fallen asleep during some lame house hunting show. She guessed that had been around ten or so.
Her mind was so muddied by these thoughts that it took her a few moments to latch onto what really mattered.
Something just woke me up. Not something loud, really. Something…weird. Now what the hell was it?
As she climbed out of grogginess and into a full panicked state of awareness, a few things occurred to her. First, her mom wasn’t there. And being so late, that was either a good thing (as she potentially was on the trail of the killer) or a bad thing. Whatever the reason, it meant that she was all alone.
No, she thought. Saw
