AXEL
A suffocating silence surrounded me. It pressed down on my chest like a weight. I blinked and looked around, confused at what I was doing back at the family estate and where everyone had disappeared to.
Something in the back of my mind told me this wasn’t right, but I couldn’t put my finger on it.
Things just seemed… strange. The foyer was brightly lit up by the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, yet I watched as shadows danced along the walls and further down the hallway.
The air was cold, unnaturally so. I blew out a breath, a visible puff of air forming in front of my face before it faded away. What the hell? I had never seen the house that cold. I didn’t think it was even possible for the temperatures to drop that low within the walls of the estate.
I turned around in a
