Chapter 9 - Ethan Faces The Ghosts Inside His Childhood Bedroom
Ethan unlocked the front door of the house he had fled the morning after his eighteenth birthday.
Inside, everything remained exactly as it had been left, coated in a thick layer of undisturbed dust and silence.
He climbed the creaking wooden stairs, his footsteps sounding like gunshots in the empty, hollow hallway.
Pushing open the door to his old bedroom, he felt a cold wave of childhood sorrow wash over his soul.
The twin bed was stripped bare, and his old baseball bat still leaned against the corner of the closet wall.
He walked over to the small wooden desk where he used to study by the light of a single desk lamp.
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Resting on top of the blotter was a thick leather journal tied shut with a faded blue ribbon.
Ethan’s fingers brushed the leather cover, wondering what other secrets his father had hidden away in this room.
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