After Alex left, an exhausted Stella quickly prepared a warm dinner and went into her bathroom for a warm bath while the dinner was steaming on her gas cooker.
She had just applied some sweet-scented shampoo on her hair and was scrubbing it under the running shower water when her ears picked up a repeated tapping sound. She quickly turned off the running shower water and wiped the white bubbly shampoo foam from her face. She listened attentively this time to confirm if someone was really knocking at her door.
To Stella's shock, the tapping sound came again but this time it was louder.
"Who could be at my door at this time of the day?" Stella mumbled to herself. She quickly turned on the shower water and washed off the soap on her hair and face. Then she dashed out of the shower room and wriggle the water from her wet hair before throwing on one of her bathrobes without towel-drying her body.
