Chapter Thirty-Eight

I’m not sure what woke me, it was late and the moonlight barely a sliver through the thick curtains, and Silas was sound asleep on his stomach beside me. The house was quiet, nothing out of the ordinary for house sounds at all. Now that I was awake I knew I wasn’t going to be able to go back to sleep any time soon. I sighed and quietly got out of bed and tiptoed across the hall to use the bathroom. Once done I decide to go for a walk outside, relax on the back porch maybe.

I quietly got a pair of tights out of my bag and pulled them on along with my sweater before quietly creeping down the stairs, staying as close to the wall as possible so the stairs didn’t creek. I was quite pleased with myself for retaining the tricks for sneaking around the house after all these years. I tiptoed into the kitchen and across the floor to the patio door. I pushed against it and then quietly twisted the handle before pulling and grinning as it didn’t cr