The Little Girl Is A Mystery
The story begins on a rainy night when Leon Blackwood, a man known for his ruthlessness, finds a half-starved little girl curled up near his estate. He has no reason to help her. She is just another forgotten soul in a world that doesn’t care. But for some reason, he hesitates. Maybe it’s the way she refuses to beg, or the way she looks straight into his eyes without fear. Against his better judgment, he takes her home.
The twins, Elias and Elijah, take an instant liking to her. They cling to her, drawn to her quiet nature, to the way she doesn’t treat them like fragile dolls. She isn’t like the nannies who fuss over them or the strangers who only see them as Leon Blackwood’s children. She treats them like real people.
But Annora is not a normal child.
She does not flinch when voices rise in anger. She does not cry when she is scolded. She does not ask for things. And at night, when the house is silent, she sits awake, her small hands gripping the sheets, eyes wide open as if she is waiting for something—or someone.
Leon, a man who built his life around control, finds himself disturbed by her presence. She is just a child, but she unsettles him in a way he cannot explain. He watches her carefully, trying to understand what it is about her that feels… wrong.
Then strange things start happening.
The twins begin having nightmares. They wake up crying, speaking of a man in the dark. Their laughter turns to whispers, their joy to unease. Annora never speaks of it, but Leon notices the way she grows even quieter, the way she avoids certain rooms, the way her small fingers tremble when she thinks no one is looking.
Mrs. Halloway believes the child is cursed.
Victor Alden, Leon’s business partner, seems too interested in her.
And Annora? She knows something.
She remembers hands grabbing her wrists, voices telling her to be silent. She remembers running, running, running until her feet bled. But she does not remember why.
Not yet.
The deeper Leon digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Annora is not just some abandoned child. She is something else. Something that someone wants back.
And they are coming for her.
