Five
“Bathroom,” Doris quipped as she opened the door to our left. She gave the next door in the hallway a push. “Second guest bedroom. And then that’s the master bedroom at the end. That’s sixteen.”
Watt tapped his pen against his chin as he noted down the information thoroughly. “Sixteen rooms.”
I rolled my eyes. He didn't really need to write that down. If we were looking for a seventeenth room, then there were obviously going to be sixteen others.
“Sixteen indeed.” The old woman frowned as she put her hands on her hips, her forehead even more wrinkled. “But the legend says there should be a seventeenth room. I’ve lived here my entire life and I’ve never found it.”
Legend? That seemed unlikely. The house had seen better days, but I didn't think it was old enough to have legends ab
