Noah held the cloth up with trembling hands.
— I think that belonged to Lily.
Daniel stared at it. All the color drained from his face.
Then he whispered:
— Don’t touch anything else.
Twenty minutes later, police cars were parked in front of the house.
Everything changed when Detective Claire Bennett entered Harold’s bedroom.
It was no longer an old man’s house.
It was a crime scene.
Then Margaret came along.
She saw the pink fabric and froze.
She didn’t scream.
This silence was worse.
—That’s Lily’s — she whispered. —I made these flowers with her.
Hours later, an officer found a brown notebook hidden in an old pillowcase.
Detective Bennett opened it.
Her face changed.
Then she looked towards the back window.
— There’s a shed in the yard — she said.
The officers broke into the castle by midnight.
In the shed, they found a hidden door under some wooden boards.
And below that…
A staircase that led into darkness.😨💔
PART 2
Noah stood in the yard and could not move.
The rain had stopped, but water was still dripping from the shed roof. The whole place smelled of wet wood, mud, and something old that had been locked away for far too long.
Margaret began to tremble.
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