My stepdad's fantasy
Seconds after now we begin
Douro Valley villa
The 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.