Moving Rooms

Someone had been in the house. Someone was possibly still in the house. The only person Lilyan knew that could have possibly gotten into her locked home was her uncle. He had to have gotten back from his business trip early. He would have seen Zayd's bag on the living room floor. He had been in her room. He would have seen all the new clothes she had hanging on her new clothes rack. She assumed he was sitting downstairs, waiting for her to get back. Sitting in the dark, hiding his car somewhere so he could catch her unaware... it was exactly the sort of thing her uncle would do.

Lilyan knew she was in deep, deep trouble. She shuddered, thinking about what her uncle had in store for her once she went down the steps and found him. He was most likely sitting on the stool that she kept in t……