April's pov
I stepped onto the top floor, my heart pounding in my chest. For so long, this part of Blackmount Estate had been a mystery, a place no one talked about, a place everyone avoided. I had imagined the worst, dust-filled corners, broken furniture, thick cobwebs, maybe even the bones of forgotten secrets.
But nothing could have prepared me for what I actually saw.
The hallway in front of me wasn’t abandoned. It wasn’t even old-looking. It was clean... too clean. The polished wooden floor glowed beneath the soft light, smooth and shining like a mirror. My shoes made no sound as I stepped forward, and I found myself moving slowly, afraid to break the strange silence.
It didn’t feel like a hidden floor.
It felt… lived in.
The corridor stretched out before me, long and quiet. On
