I heard a key turning in the front door.
Someone had entered.
Then I heard my uncle’s voice.
“Are you still awake?”
I stayed silent.
His footsteps moved down the hallway.
Then they stopped outside my mother’s bedroom.
And he spoke softly:
“I know you found the box.”
That was when I realized something.
The message hadn’t been warning me about my uncle.
It had been preparing me to face him.
And the most terrifying part?
My mother had known I would find that box after she died...
Because inside it was a secret that could destroy our entire family.
