HOPE
I was wandering around the top floor, which once belonged solely to Ace before I became a co-owner, without a care in the world...confident I wouldn’t get caught. One of the kind maids had told me earlier that I was free to explore the place.
As I poked my head into a series of empty rooms filled with nothing but dust, I suddenly stopped in front of the door to Ace’s room.
Standing there, it hit me: after our encounter in his room the other week, seeing him again had become like trying to win the lottery. My heart sank as I realized it had been weeks since I last saw him.
It wasn’t that I missed him. Not at all.
It was that my stay in the mansion was dragging on, and I was starting to warm up to the place.
No, you’re not, I scolded myself.
I saw him that night. It had been a f
