A body has been discovered inside the home of a missing Maine mom — whose controlling boyfriend would threaten her by saying, “Tick, tock, your time is coming,”  according to a new report.

The body — which had yet to be identified by Thursday morning — was discovered in the basement of 29-year-old Melissa Sousa’s home around 4 p.m. Wednesday, local station WGME reported.

Sousa was last seen Tuesday morning, when she dropped her twin girls off at their bus stop, according to the report.

Tami Tims, a close friend and co-worker of Sousa, previously told the station that Sousa had spoken of her violent relationship with boyfriend Nicholas Lovejoy — whom she was thinking about leaving.

“She told us that his big thing is ‘Tick, tock, your time is coming,’” Tims said. “He’s said he was gonna kill her. ‘I have two choices. It’s kill you or kill you.’ It was just his way of controlling her.”

“He’s threatened her a lot with guns,” Tims added. “More recent than not. But over the years he’s been an abusive person in her life.”

Lovejoy was busted late Tuesday on an unrelated charge — when authorities stopped his SUV and found a loaded rifle in the vehicle, the outlet reported.

He was also hit with a charge for endangering the welfare of a child, because the children were left alone in their home at the time, according to the report.

He is being held at the Kennebec County Jail on $2,000 bail, New England Cable News reported.

The medical examiner’s office did not immediately confirm the identity of the body or the cause of death.