Alex
"How did you know it is a room and not a tunnel or passage," James asked
"Look at this, if it is a tunnel it must be leading somewhere but look here, right under the master bedroom is something like a staircase and it stops right there, if it is a tunnel it must be leading somewhere, but there is no other place there."
"Okay, so what do we do now? it's 7 am already." Lewis said checking the time.
"Cole, is there any other way inside apart from the main gate?" I asked and Cole checked again.
"There is none here, this is before the renovation right?" He asked James and he nodded.
"Maybe there is one now, Sam bought the house four years ago, he could have done something to the house, so we can't say," Cole said and I nodded.
"I wish I had time back then to oversee the renovation back then."
"Oh, come on, you were very busy and who knew something like this was going to happen?" I said and he nodded
"We are going now right?" I asked and they nodded.
"Good, I'll drive," I said grabbing my car key, I was afraid, scared that Tracy was with that guy but I didn't show it, I drove us where we parked the car far from that house and we walked back there, hiding in the bush we hid in the last time we came.
"So what are we going to do? We don't even have a plan." Cole said and others nodded. As we watched the house from where we were standing.
"I don't know but we have to get inside that place and rescue Tracy somehow."
"You are that beautiful lady's husband." A voice said from behind and we almost ran away because we were startled.
"Who are you?" I asked the woman, she looked like she was in her late 50s
"You can just call me Mrs. Moon, I work in there." She introduced pointing towards the house.
"Really?" I asked moving forward.
"Yes, I tried to warn your wife yesterday but I guess she didn't see it and it was too late."
"What?, What do you mean by too late? What did he do to my wife?" I asked moving closer and grabbing the woman's hand.
The guys pulled me back telling me to calm down.
"Oh I didn't mean it like that, she is fine, well I think she is fine, but you need to know that obsessed with your wife, like really obsessed since they were in high school and I think that was because she was the only one who was nice to him in school. I was his nanny since when he was very young and I can assure you that Sam is very nice but the issue is I know he is not mentally okay, his mother was in a toxic relationship with his father, but even though his mother married another man when he was just one, his father still came back to harass his mother, he'd always beat her with a whip, I think seeing those things as he grew up broke him, his father is in jail now but I don't think he can let go of that memory, he felt neglected as he grew up and his stepsister didn't help his situation, I tried to talk to his mother about taking him to a therapist but I guess she was battling with issues of her own."
"Do you know where my wife is then?"
"I do, well I think so, when I left yesterday I saw him come out over an hour later, he drove the car that way then he came back in a cab later, Nora also arrived a few minutes after he entered."
"Nora?"
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