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Chapter One

“I’ll be fine You don’t have to worry about me at all” Daphne checked the locks on each door andas she passed them

“I’ve never known anything like it To have the warning come out, and noe’re on lockdown and not allowed to leave our houe, Bethany, said

Everyone had been watching the news about the virus spreading through each nation Each country it touched, more measures were put in place Now, she stood in heruests whatsoever She just knew her grandrave if she were to see this place Open fifty years, and not a day closed

Noith new rules, she was closed to everyone No guests No workers Just closed

This was her home and had been ever since her parents died in an accident when she elve Her grandmother had taken her in, made all the adjustrowing up

She’d learned how to run this place from the best person she knew and now, she was … closed

Rather than feel gloo to ain Until then, she could spend ti the break That was all

“I don’t kno you can be so cal locked in my house all day”

“You’re not locked in your house all day You can go for a run”

Bethany snorted

“We can chat any day or night You knohere I a the doors were locked and heading back to the h everything “Before you left, you signed out all the guests?”

“I signed out who checked out There were six faht after the announce to be one with nature I saw each of the staff out I also handed theiven me”

“Good, good” She didn’t want her staff to go without their wages She would pay thee of the keyboard, she saw froned out After clicking on the details, she paused “You saw them out, didn’t you?”

She’d been friends with Bethany since kindergarten, so her friend would know exactly who she meant

“Them?”

“Please tell me you dealt with them You promised you would”