Chapter 32
Mimila’s POV
My heart skipped a bit for a few seconds when I heard a man’s voice in the sitting room, but it’d echoed here in Xylene’s bedroom; I squeezed my feet tightly in front of me, my head buried downwards on the bed as I shut my eyes. My heart thudded heavily against the hard brick of my chest; I could hear the sound repeatedly in my ears and for a second, I thought my heart would be ripped out of my heart as it kept on pounding heavily against it.
“Hello?” the man called out again, his voice sharp through the room echoing down to the bedroom where I was hiding. “Is anyone here?”
I froze, my heart racing the man as I heard the man’s voice again; I was alone in the whole of the house and a stranger was probably in the living room of the house. I was without defense; t
