After the death of his uncle, Dalton Prie is ordered by his unpleasant and bossy mother to drive out to the woodsy lakeside town where his uncle lived to clear out his cabin. As Dalton diligently works boxing up his uncle's trinkets and realizing his uncle had hoarding issues, he meets two men he'd like to know more about. Officer Noah Rexington is a hot cop with the local PD and Joshua Kane is the strange, burly neighbor next door.<br><br>Soon Dalton develops a slight crush on Officer Rexington. He also realizes something shady is happening at Joshua's residence. When Dalton becomes The Curious Neighbor investigating Kane's property, he begins to learn many things about Kane, and of the man's unbelievable secrets ...

The Curious Neighbor

On the first three steps, I pulled the hatch closed behind me, sealing me in the darkness. The short stairwell’s cement walls curved around me as I climbed down the four remaining steps. Steel railings lined both of my sides. Within seconds, I stood at the bottom of the steps, caught in a thick pitch-black.


I used my cellphone as a light. White brightness filled the dark space at the bottom of the stairwell. I noticed the white and curved cement walls around me, the white railings parallel to the steps, and a long hallway beneath the earth, perhaps thirty feet long or just slightly longer.


At first, I believed the area a bunker of sorts, useable during atomic blasts and World War III, but the heavy aroma of marijuana wafted about the sublevel area, filling my nostrils.


“There’s pot down here,” I whispered, swinging the flashlight from left to right, filling the dome-like hallway with bright white light.


Chapter 18