NovelEnglishChapter 147
In the dark, we stumbled toward the living room. | almost tripped over a large vase in the corner of the room,
and Ava bumped into a side table, jostling a lamp, but she managed to catch it before it crashed to the floor.
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Finally, we made it to our purses. Quickly, Ava made the call to the police and put her phone on speaker so that |
could hear it.
“Yes, please send over someone as quickly as possible,” Ava said after she quickly explained the situation. “The
knocking on my door is becoming so loud, | can barely even hear you and...” She paused and swallowed, but she
rolled her shoulders back, trying to remain brave. “And | think there might be someone in the house.”
The pounding on the door was becoming so loud that | could barely hear myself think. Whoever was trying to get
in alternated between knocking and ranging the doorbell repeatedly.
“I'm sending someone over to your location right now,” the operator assured us. “Go to a room that you can lock
and stay there to wait for the officers to get to you. If you have any weapons to protect yourselves, bring them
with you.”
Her last sentence made a jolt go through me. The room spun. This whole thing was all happening too fast.
After Ava hung up, she grabbed my hand and draggedto her bedroom. She locked the door and used the
light from her cell phone to look around the room. I shook my head to clear it. I couldn't afford to go into shock
right now. I had to help Ava. As | got my phone out of my purse, we heard a noise coming from the other room.
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It was the unmistakable sound of a door being unlocked.
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Ava’s terrified gaze met mine. “They're inside!” she whispered, her voice high with anxiety.
This time, | was the one to act first. | grabbed onto her wrist and led her into her bathroom that was connected
to the room. We shut the door and locked it. The fact that there were now two locked doors between us and the
intruder made my shoulders relax slightly.
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After a moment of eerie silence, Ava quietly gasped.
“What is it?” | whispered.
“If someone has a key to open the door, that means that they can get into my bedroom and the bathroom,” she
quickly explained. “It's a master key that unlocks any room in my apartment!”
My heart dropped. “So, we're sitting ducks, then?”
Ava nodded.
At the stime, we sprang from the floor and ran out of the bathroom, through her bedroom, and back out into
the hallway. It wasn’t smart to be cornered by the intruder.
“Do you hear that?” Ava whispered as we crept along the dark hallway.
| stopped walking and listened closely.
In the direction of the balcony doors, there was a small creaking sound. The door to the balcony was slowly being
opened, and a man’s face cinto view.
Ava and | held each other as we screamed at the top of our lungs. We were almost loud enough to crack the
glass. The pounding on the door continued as the man cslowly into view.
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Once | got a good look at him, | immediately stopped screaming.
“Ava!” | said and shook her because she was still yelling with fear. “It’s. Richard!”
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His head tilted to the side. “No, that
wasn't me.” As if on cue, the knocking
started again. Richard volunteered to
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about the power outage. It wasn't
just Ava's apartment. It was the
whole building. The landlord had
heard us screaming, and that was
why he had been pounding on the
door. He had decided to cin with
his master key when she hadn't
answered to make sure we were
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