PART 15 — The ultimate secret
The old man stepped closer, his eyes shimmering with tears in the dim light of the living room lamp. Mark and Sarah stared at him in utter astonishment, completely failing to understand who this stranger was and what his arrival could mean for their last straw.
“Who... who on earth are you?” stammered Mark, trying to scramble up from the floor.
The man completely ignored my son. He looked me straight in the eyes and said with a voice trembling with tension: “Anna... Willem never told you the whole truth about the house. The house on Lindelaan does not belong to you, and it certainly doesn't belong to Mark. The land on which this entire property is built belongs to...”
Suddenly, the power throughout the entire house went out. The lights flickered and went completely dark, plunging us into pitch blackness. Outside, the wind howled through the trees, and in the hallway we heard a heavy step approaching that shook the house to its foundations...
