Chapter 24 Gunshots

Chapter 24: A Dangerous Game The hours after Vicktor left Amanda alone in the study dragged on like an eternity. The mansion, usually a fortress of security, now felt like a prison closing in on her. Every shadow seemed to move, every creak of the floorboards a harbinger of the danger looming just out of sight. The air was thick with tension, the kind that made her skin crawl and her heart pound in her chest.