Cherryinheels
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At eight years old, Alexa Smith witnessed her neighbor kill a man.
From the kitchen window of her family's apartment, she saw nineteen-year-old Elias Devereux dragging a body through the alley behind their building. Blood on his hands. A smile on his face. Calmness where fear should have been.
And then he looked directly at her.
Terrified he would come after her next, Alexa made a desperate choice to survive.
She pretended to be blind.
What began as a child's lie became her entire identity. For nineteen years, Alexa perfected the performance. The careful steps. The lowered gaze. The thick glasses and quiet demeanor convinced everyone around her that she could no longer see.
Everyone believed her.
Everyone except Elias.
Now twenty-seven, Alexa has spent years away from home trying to escape the shadow of the boy next door. But after her mother's sudden death, she's forced to return to the one place she swore never to set foot in again.
Only to discover Elias never left.
Now thirty-eight, Elias Devereux is no longer the troubled teenager from the alley. He's wealthy, respected, dangerously charming, and loved by everyone in town. The perfect neighbor. The perfect gentleman.
No one knows he became a serial killer.
No one knows bodies have continued disappearing for years.
And no one knows the blind woman across the street has been silently terrified of him her entire life.
Because Elias has always known the truth.
He knows Alexa can see.
He notices the way her eyes follow movement when she forgets herself. The way her fear sharpens whenever he gets too close. The way she still looks at him like she remembers exactly what he is.
What begins as suspicion soon twists into obsession.
Now trapped between grief, fear, and the man who has haunted her since childhood, Alexa finds herself caught in a dangerous game where every secret has teeth.
Because the closer Elias gets to exposing her lie...
the more she realizes the serial killer next door may never l