บททั้งหมดของ My stepdad's fantasy: บทที่ 51 - บทที่ 60

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

Seconds after it movedDouro Valley villa, before sunrise,It didn’t stop that's the first thing that hit me not even a pause from it it just …it was just farther away and then suddenly it wasn't.it seemed closer way too close like a distance didn't matter to it at all like it skipped that part completely.i tightened my arm around Sofia without thinking I didn't all through instinct just mine. It looked like a wrong move the air changed immediately it seemed cold,sharp,like something pressing in without actually touching me.Don't”tomás said as if he knew what I was going to do next but it was already too late,Sofia cried but this time it was louder not just a small sound the kind that fills everything and makes it hard to thinkAnd just then the shadow changed it didn't look bigger or smaller it just looked like it was focusing on something like it picked something.My chest tightened so quick that it hurts it felt heavy and wrong and the same time something in me jjjjust dropped.“The

Minutes after leaving the villaDouro Valley road, just after sunrise For a few secondi it actually felt over not completel,not in a safe way but enough that my body didn’t know what to do with it,The air outside was cold in a way that felt… real.not controlled not filtered it was just cold It hit my skin and stayed there instead of turning into something else that.i could breathe like I could actually breathe not shallow not carefully not even measured so something wouldn't react just..air in air out I didn't even realize how wrong it has been inside until that moment.Sofia moved in my arms making a small sound not crying just adjusting alive ,warm and real I pressed my cheek lightly against her head without thinking,grounding myself in that one thing that hasn't changed.We are outside I whispered my voice ce sounded strange like it hadn't been properly used in hours.Tomàs didn't answer,he was still looking at the house not causally,not like he was checking behind him like he expect