Love Grows In The Dark by Eli Lowe (read books for money TXT) 📕

towards another destination where I must go before I head back to attain school.

I speeded up my bike, attempting to reach the place about which no one ever knew, except me and my dad. And, I was so assured that it could definitely lead me to the one who is still alive, at least I believe so.

But, one thing was certain that my one single step would raise a tremendous upheaval from the very moment, without any doubt. Chaos will occur, if not to everyone then obviously to uncle Benjamin, which could even become life-threatening for me.

But nothing could stop me now.

Episode 53

Summer's P.O.V

I was again walking through the dark tunnel right at this moment, while keeping my mind calm enough to take each and every step ever so carefully. Cause I knew exactly where the tunnel will lead me in no time, as I had been here before.

The whole place was extremely scary as not a single trace of light can come inside here to make it a bit easy to take a step further, showing the way ahead. And on top of that, the tunnel was full of dirt and the vicious stinky smell was all around the air, as if each and every sewage of the town meets here to make the place even more deadly to cross through.

It was not that the place was completely lifeless, cause it was not. As the rats were all around the place and so was the other kind of insects.

Even when I was feeling extremely sick for being in such kind of atmosphere down here, that I even wanted to puke for once, but still I was determined to do the very thing for which I had come here in the very first place.

So, without running out of the tunnel, I kept going forward, even when the air was becoming more and more poisonous to breathe in.

With each of my careful step towards the destination, I kept thinking that why I had never thought of going to this place to check out if anything was wrong or not, after Mom and Dad died strangely that night, leaving so many loose strings for me to tie, in order to solve the mystery of the past. Why did I never bother to find out those loose ends which were always there right in front of my eyes, only if I cared to look for them?

It seemed that all these years since that night, I was so involved with my own losses and miseries from the past which indeed left a huge impact on my present life, but without any doubt, I did fail to look for the most important hint which might have helped me to find out the truth behind Mom and Dad's sudden tragic death. I should have tried to find out the one who was always hidden behind the lies for years, even now.

But this time, the truth must defeat the evil, once and for all. And that was what I was intended to make it happen.

So, keeping aside all the thoughts about what I could have done before and what I should do afterwards, I kept going ahead where the tunnel turned out to be even darker and narrower. But still, it had enough space for me to walk in without any trouble.

All the sounds from the outer world could not even enter this very place as I could hear nothing except the noises of all the insects and the sound of my own heartbeats which were now appearing no less than drum beats.

Of course, I was scared.

Cause I knew very well, that if today I got caught somehow, so many efforts of so many people for years would go all in vain, and I just could not let that happen, never ever. And not just that, cause if I got to succeed today, I can never back down from what I had started and I must be prepared to face the ultimate.

I knew very well that I have to fight which I will for sure.

Anyway,

After quite some while, I was finally standing at the bottom of the stairs, which will lead me to the trapdoor, from where I can enter the room. And it was just the door which was now standing in between me and my fate which was yet to decide.

Standing at the bottom of the stairs in the dark, I tried to calm down my heart for a little bit, but it seemed that it was not going to happen, not now at least, when my luck was about to be tested.

So, seeing myself unable to loosen up, I went forward to put one of my foot on the first step and then on the second. I kept moving forward little by little, giving myself enough time to breathe in and breathe out as much as possible. As I was about to reach underneath the wooden trapdoor, I clearly heard another sound of heavy breathing, which was not mine for sure.

I have to say that I was not at all startled right at that moment as I supposed to be. Cause I was pretty much expecting someone to be present in that secret room. But I also thought that my assumptions might be wrong as well. And that was why I decided to check by myself.

Though I took a bit more time, before coming in here, cause I needed to make sure that this passage to the room was still unknown to everyone. And when I was assured enough, I decided to begin my quest at any time soon, but never thought that I had to take action this fast.

Anyway, that does not matter, when I was all ready to face the consequences.

I kept waiting underneath the trap door only to observe if there was any