Ashley lowered the letter to her lap with unstable hands as she released a shaky breath. Moko, having read the letter with her, slithered up her arm to console her by nuzzling her cheek. Clenching her jaw, she shut her eyes as tight as she could and tried to calm her racing heart. She shouldn’t have been so scared, it was pathetic. She’d been threatened before. Multiple times, in fact, but the thing was, she always knew what to do then. The situation should have been familiar to her, but it wasn’t. Graham had been a horrible father, sure, but he had never intended to kill her before!