As night fell, she made a decision.
She installed a small security camera in the bedroom, pointing it toward the bed and the entrance door.
She didn’t tell Sofia anything because she didn’t want to frighten the child.
At around two in the morning, Elena’s phone began to vibrate.
The camera had detected movement.
The woman opened the live video feed and stared anxiously at the screen.
At first, nothing was happening in the bedroom. Viktor was still
quiet footsteps, creaking floorboards, and doors slamming shut.
Each time, she had convinced herself that it was simply the old house making noises.
But now, everything was becoming clear.
The police arrived and carefully searched the house. Eventually, they discovered the man hiding in the storage room.
He turned out to be a former construction worker who had carried out renovations in Elena’s house a few months earlier.
When the job was finished, he had kept a duplicate set of keys. He also knew that the woman lived alone with her young daughter and her seriously ill husband.
