After

They say a key is an object designed to open and close a lock. However, in a world with many locks and limited keys, it was hard to know what or who could serve the purpose as every lock deserved a key: the key to happiness, to secrets, and sometimes, locks to keys.

Events of the previous day replayed in her head as she swerved from side to side on her bed, unable to sleep. Keren couldn’t stop thinking about it. She mentally outlined possible meanings the box conveyed but there was no good result.

The main suspects in her investigation were Lucas, his wife Sara, Madam Magdalene and Don Carlo. Regardless of the odds, she believed that somehow she could get answers.

*****

His horrid eyes pierced through the rainy night, his breath quickened and his heart stumped against his chest as he ran. Teenage Addison was drenched not only in the cold stream of rain but blood, the blood of those lads that fell by his hand.