Chapter 55: BurglaryI awoke in the middle of the night to footsteps and commotion in the house. I sat straight up in bed, blinked once, twice, and three times. My heart beat painfully within the tomb of my chest. Startled and half out of my mind, I listened to someone break into the house downstairs; a burglar intruding my abode. I heard clacking and clicking at the rear door in the kitchen, and footsteps across the marble floor in the foyer and at the bottom of the stairwell between the first and second floors. Whoever was inside the house was not at all quiet and believed that no one was home. The burglar was noisy and intrusive and…
I couldn’t just sit in bed and wait for someone to save or protect me. There was a phone in the room. I quietly climbed out of bed, rushed to it, and diale
