Chapter 14 - A Midnight Escape Attempt Through the Estate Gardens
Midnight shadows stretched across the sprawling manicured lawns of the estate as a thick fog rolled in from the nearby harbor. In the archive room, Emilio used a metal paperclip salvaged from a desk tray to pick the old brass door lock.
With a soft mechanical click, the heavy steel door swung inward, revealing an empty, dimly lit stone corridor leading outside. Clarissa grabbed her fallen purse, following Emilio on tiptoes as they crept toward the rear servants' exit near the greenhouses.
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The cool night air hit their faces as they slipped past the dormant rosebushes toward the perimeter security gate. They could taste freedom just beyond the iron bars, ignoring the ominous silence hanging over the dark mansion behind them.
Hope flickered briefly in their chests before reality came crashing down.
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