John hugged Anne longly before finally regaining his composure. He kissed her forehead and held her face in his hands tenderly. “Shall we go to bed together? I’ll make you a nice cup of warm milk if you can’t sleep.”

Anne nodded.

With that, John smiled and kissed her again before finally leaving the room.

The living room was dark, which meant Robyn had gone to sleep.

John switched on the lights, then walked into the kitchen to grab the milk carton and heated it in a cup.

He returned to the bedroom with Anne’s cup, only to find her staring out the window at the apartment building across from theirs.

At this moment, the entire building was ablaze with light and activity. Cars were parked outside the building with countless men dressed in black rushing into the building as though they were in search of someone.

furrowed his brows.

be policemen, but if not, who else would they be? Why would they

of this, John took out his

him to the group chat with the rest of the tenants of their building so he would stay up-to-date on the latest news, such as electricity

no idea what was happening in the building across from them, he

was right; the group chat was filled with messages from the tenants. By

With the old man’s family having tracked

been awarded 10000 dollars

estate agent that possessed the keys to some of the vacant units right across. He blatantly asked the rest of the people in the group chat if any of them wanted to sneak into a vacant unit whereby they could pretend they lived there and claim

well I’m up for that! Whoever’s giving out this money probably won’t mind giving me

than three months of my salary combined! Why would I pass up

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