Millie, appreciating the old woman’s warm-heartedness, agreed without hesitation. The elderly lady’s kindness reminded her of her own grandmother and Marcus’s grandmother.

“I’ll help you with the cooking.”

As Millie and the old woman chatted and cooked in the kitchen, they shared stories. Millie learned that the old woman’s son, aged 35, worked as a doctor in a town 20 kilometers away. He only returned occasionally and mostly lived in the town. Her husband had passed away.

She also had a loyal companion, a dog named Waldo.

“The fish is cooked!”

Millie opened the pot which released a mouthwatering aroma that filled the air.

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the harmonious atmosphere inside the house was

arrived

the situation, returned to the room,

kitchen to invite them for dinner, she noticed her companions cautiously retreating into the

amiss. Glancing out the glass window, she spotted figures in the yard, triggering a surge of

to her and whispered, “Take her to hide in

will.” Millie composed herself and

bullets pierced through the window into the hall. Marcus and Trenton took cover on

urgently instructed the elderly woman, pulling

was completely bewildered, inquiring,

cause of

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