All Chapters of Framed as a Peeping Tom, but I'm Blind: Chapter 11 - Chapter 14

Sucking in a deep breath to center myself, I twisted the key.The door swung open. Inside, a dead silence hung over the house.I stepped inside with Teresa close behind me.Everything seemed exactly the same as when I left—the placement of the furniture, that same familiar smell in the air.However, my hearing was telling me that something was off.It was too quiet.Almost as though someone was deliberately holding their breath.I slowly made my way to the middle of the living room, where I abruptly stopped moving.I could hear it.There—the couch that was slightly behind me, to my left…There was a heartbeat behind the couch, faint but rapid. Whoever it was, that person was filled with fear and murderous intent."Don't move," I murmured to Teresa in as low a voice as I could.At the same time, I shifted my body slightly so that she would be protected behind me.She seemed to have realized the danger as well, for I could hear her breathing abruptly stop.The tension in th

Donald had assumed that all evidence had been destroyed by the fire, but he never would've expected that my father, meticulous as he was, would've left me a contingency plan.All of my photography data would go through a special encryption channel before ultimately being stored in the memory card in this small box. This last thing my father left for me had actually become the most powerful source of protection for me.Gerald, the witness who had been forced to skip town with his family after being coerced and bribed by Donald to change his testimony back then, also had a backup copy of the evidence. However, he didn't have the guts to take it to the police himself, so he could only send Melinda, his daughter, back to Harrisville with the evidence. She would then have to find an opportunity to hand it over to the police.Unfortunately, it wasn't long before Donald tracked her down and had her captured. After that, he sent Rebecca to impersonate Melinda and move into that apartment