Semua Bab My stepdad's fantasy: Bab 51 - Bab 57

Seconds after the second ruleDouro Valley villa, before sunriseNo one moved not after thatnot after…..we’re already inside with youThe words didn’t feel like something on a screen anymore.They felt like something in the room.Like if I turned around too fast, I’d see someone standing there.I didn’t.But that didn’t help.It made it worse.Because it meant I couldn’t see them.Tomás…i whispered.My voice felt too loud.Like it didn’t belong in the quiet.He didn’t answer.He wasn’t looking at the screen anymore,he was listening ,actually listeningHead tilted slightlyEyes unfocused.Like he was trying to catch something under everything else.‘What?I asked, my voice dropping even lower. “What do you hear?A pause.Then“Nothing.”That should’ve been a relief.It wasn’t.Because the silence felt wrong.Too clean.Too empty.Like something had been there a second ago and just… stopped.Sofia shifted in my arms, letting out a soft, sleepy sound. I held her closer instantly, pressi

Seconds after the first stepDouro Valley villa, total blackoutThe darkness wasn’t just the absence of light.It felt heavy.Like it was pressing in from every directio thick, suffocating erasing the shape of the room, swallowing distance, swallowing anything that felt certain. The kind of darkness that makes your mind start filling in things that aren’t there…Or worsehide the things that are.I couldn’t see Tomás.That was the first thing that broke me.He’d been right there a second ago solid, steady, between me and the hallway.Nownothing.“Tomás,” I whispered.Too quiet.Like the dark might swallow his name before it reached him,A breathClose.Not mine,Not Sofia’s.I froze.Every muscle locking so tight it hurt.“No…” I breathed.“Lila.”His voice.Right in front of me.Low. Close,Real.Relief hit so fast it almost made my knees give out.“I’m here,” he said, softer now.“I can’t see you,” I whispered.“I know.”Something brushed my arm.His handFirm.,Grounding.,Real.Sofia shift

Seconds after now we beginDouro Valley villaThe silence didn’t last.It never does.Not real silence. Not the kind that settles and stays. This ..this was something else a pause a held breath. Like the house itself was waiting to see what we would do next.And then it exhaled alow, almost imperceptible hum crept through the walls.Not mechanical not quite.It sounded… alive.My fingers tightened instinctively around Sofia, my heart still hammering too fast, too hard. She shifted against me, unsettled, her small body reacting to something she couldn’t understand but could feel.“Tomás…” I whispered.“I heard it ,hisvoice was steady too steady.The kind of steady that meant he was forcing it,The screen still glowed in front of us, that last message burned into it:Now we begin.I couldn’t look away from it.Because if I did if I looked anywhere else I. was terrified I’d see something that wasn’t there a second ago or something much worse,something that had been there all along.A sof