The Trap

Introduction

Written for Open Novella Contest 2021 @AmbassadorsIN

Prompt 3
You're walking alone, being stalked and it's 1 am. Who's stalking you and why? Will you be able to escape? Wait, are you even trying to escape or are you trying to lure another guy into your elaborate trap?

Blurb

Heartbroken and betrayed, Melissa had lost everything. But in an unforeseen twist of fate, life had given her a second chance, a chance that could turn the tables on David, her husband, the man she once loved but now hated.

Enlisting the help of her best friend, Alexander, a man who is irrevocably in love with her and would go to any lengths to protect her, with renewed vigor and taking advantage of all she knows, she has set a trap to take back what he had tried to steal from her more than once: her life.

Will Melissa succeed in trapping him, or will David recognize the woman who is donning the suit of his latest obsession: Janice?

Will Alexander be able to protect his soulmate, or will he lose her again?