The Haunting Of The Sixth Footprint
The Uninvited Guests
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On their way to the villa, Hazel spoke to Chloe to scare her, saying that the villa was looking more creepy than that windy whisper. Chloe was so scared that she held Lucas's coat; both of them were a made in heaven match of messy and scaredy.
The wind blowing here was calmer than on the road. While moving toward the villa, Ethan's heartbeat was rising as a familiar scent reached him. They had not even reached halfway when the stormy wind started again, seeming to make every possible move to stop them from reaching the villa. However, they held hands together and moved toward the house. Even the cloudburst, which had been calming before, started up. They managed to reach the gate of the villa, banging on the door for help and shelter.
A man opened the door, saying, "Wait, I only went out for five minutes and you had to come at the exact same time." Ethan apologized and explained that they were stuck in the woods, their cars broke down, and it was not safe outside. He asked if they could stay the night there.
A girl wearing black seemed to be standing in the dark and was moving towards them. She called the gateman, Marcus. He went to her, then returned to say that they were welcome. Then, the unknown personality went upstairs. They all entered the villa. It was a good place to stay, filled with essentials, and a maid, Elena, was cleaning the kitchen. They waited in the hall, and another man named Leo came to them, saying he had a geyser set up for them so they could take a bath now. They got two rooms: one for the women and one for the men. Leo said that there were four rooms in total, but the other two rooms belonged to him and his wife, Clara, who was the secretary of Ma'am, while he was her bodyguard and the final room belonged to Marcus and Elena.
When Chloe was taking a shower, she felt something was behind her. When she looked back, there was nothing. She rushed, changed her clothes, and went out to Hazel, who had already changed into the clothes given by Elena for both of them. When Chloe came to talk to Hazel, she remembered that something had been off with the mirror while she was taking the shower. But to console herself, thinking it was just that she had been scared from the incident on the road, she told Chloe that she was just seeing things.
Meanwhile, when Lucas was looking outside from the window while sitting on the bed, which was in the center of the room, he saw something scary that he couldn't explain. He went straight to the changing space where Xavier was changing his clothes and asked him to come and see, but there was nothing there by then. Lucas was gasping out of fear when the bathroom door opened and Ethan came out. Looking at them, Ethan said that Lucas was just terrified from the car incident. "Leave him and let's go to the hall," Ethan said. They all went out.
Ethan saw the lady coming down the stairs wearing a black satin shirt, black denim flat jeans, and a black trench coat. Her cascading hair was mesmerizing, and her face had a glow he couldn't resist gazing at lovingly.
She was moving towards him, and it felt as though his soul was leaving his body; he couldn't understand what was happening to him. The lady passed him and moved to her seat in the hall. Elena brought her herbal tea and also brought tea for all of them.
( I am the lady of the house, Vivienne Sterling, the only heir of my maternal and paternal assets and a famous cardiac surgeon by my own right. I have looked after our family's Real Estate & Hospitality business of luxury hotels single-handedly for over ten years. I had studied with these five friends in my hometown, who are now no less than strangers to me. It was when I joined the high school, and everything was new and aloof to me there, that Ethan's bike made my heart thump and I looked at him. He got off the bike, set down his bag, passed beside me, and I was still looking at his back, hoping to see him again.
It was back when Zeida Cross made them look guilty for the crime she committed. She had a deal with some drug sellers and sold drugs to school students. One day, they saw her doing so and confronted her because Xavier's brother had also become a drug addict and died because of withdrawal from it. But she made an unexpected ambush and made all of them look guilty in front of the teachers.
Everyone believed her, as Xavier's brother had obtained drugs easily, so all of them were easily suspected. I used my smartwatch to record various scenarios of the school. While I was reviewing the footage to clear my mind because of Zeida's false accusations against them, I saw that my playlist had captured her crime.
I showed it to the Principal and asked him to have her arrested as soon as possible. As he knew my background, I asked him not to tell anyone that I gave the video to him. As decided, Zeida was put in prison and the racket behind the drugs was also arrested.
I had to leave the school after that day because my parents died, and I was nearly kidnapped by my grandparents to force me to become the CEO of our company. They wanted to jointly run both my maternal and paternal companies, which were rivals, to make them more powerful. I loved to serve people and loved to treat people, so I studied surgery and became the best surgeon in the country. My appointments are hard to get, but still, my pay from surgery is not where my main wealth comes from. I get my luxuries from my company.
This house is the only one in this area, as my parents bought it for their old age and would come here for vacations. As I was also conceived here, they always made me come here with them most of the time. We had a great time here. Whenever I am exhausted by life, I come here to relax. It was just today in the morning that I arrived. Seeing them, and seeing Ethan, is really overflowing in my heart. )
I asked them to sit and drink the tea to warm themselves so they wouldn't catch a cold. While they were talking and drinking tea, suddenly Elena ran up to them. Terrified, she had clearly seen something strange.
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