EROTICA, THRILLER, MYSTERY

Secret Admirer

Is this someone she should be afraid of?

Photo by ARYANE VILARIM from Pexels

It begins on a rainy day in June. She walks home from the bookstore she works at to find an unstamped envelope in her mailbox. Opening it, she finds a little note written on plain white notepaper. It reads:

Dear Samantha,

Roses are red, violets are blue…
No one is as beautiful as you

love,
Your Secret Admirer.

She’s intrigued and immediately runs through the list of men in her life. It has to be someone who knows where she lives, clearly.

It’s not a very long list.

1. Her stepbrother, Martin. (Eww)
2. Her manager and boss at the bookstore, Steve. Who is kinda cute in an older man kind of way, she supposes.
3. Her only male co-worker Justin, who mostly manages the music and movies section at the bookstore. Hmm. She could definitely see Justin doing something like this.
4. A small handful of high school and college friends she keeps in touch with, but they rarely hang out. (Ricky, Trevor, Austin, and Alex.) Ricky and Trevor are happily married with kids. Austin and Alex had crushes on her way back in the day, but she’s pretty sure those days are long over.