Rise of the Desperate: Billy Wood's Save and Restart System

Chapter 52: Informing Jacqueline

"What happened?" Jacqueline asked.

"What can you tell us?" Billy asked.

It took her several minutes to explain what she could remember. After the awkward talk that had taken place, she had wanted to avoid Billy. It was difficult to look him in the eyes. She had gone off to explore the rest of the house, even though she had already known the whole place like the back of her hand. That's how she ended up in the basement.

What she didn't expect was for a secret passage to appear when she coincidentally leaned against a part of the wall. When she said that, Billy and the elderly woman stared at the old man with judgmental eyes. The elderly man didn't bother trying to defend himself. There was no way he could defend against the fact that Jacqueline could easily find and enter the secret tunnel.

She had decided to check it out and make sure it was safe. Billy would have rather she immediately got him to help her check it out, but he understood where she was coming from. If a place she had n