Lucia’s eyes were cold, calculating as she stood in Chloe’s doorway, her gaze lingering on Chloe with an unsettling intensity. She stepped further into the room, her movements deliberate, almost as if she were staking claim to the space. And then her eyes darted around Chloe's room as if studying it, as if it was the first time she was seeing the room.
Finally, her eyes rested on Chloe, and she began. "I noticed something today," Lucia said, her voice low, but with a sharp edge. "Things in my room weren’t quite as I left them. I wasn’t sure if anyone had been in there. So I came here to ask you if you had entered my room."
Chloe froze for a split second, already knowing where this was going. She had gone into Lucia’s room earlier to clean, but she hadn’t been in there long. Still, the l
