Ben Chamberlain's Inheritance

Chapter Thirty-four

Mellisa got up from bed and headed downstairs. She looked at the time and it was 12 midnight.

On the staircase she had to stop as though she was trying to recollect where she was going to.

Suddenly she continued her descent down stairs until she got down to the sitting room which was expensively an extravagantly furnished.

She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, when she saw someone pass by her in the shadows.

She switched on the light as it was the moonlight sweping through the window that she used to find her way around the kitchen.

On switching the light, there was no one there. After getting the water and consuming it she put off the light and she was on her way up stairs when she saw a silhouette of a figure blocking her path.

"Who are you and what do you want?" The figure just stared at her. She halted and did not move.

Suddenly, the figure began to move down the stairs towards her. She did not show any fear but when the figure was about four steps away from her she ran