It started with a sound.
A knock.
Not loud. Not urgent. Just… deliberate.
Three taps.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
I remember checking the time. 2:17 AM.
I live alone. No one visits me. Especially not at that hour.
At first, I thought it came from my dream. You know that blurry space between asleep and awake where things don’t make sense yet. So I stayed still, staring at the ceiling, waiting for my heartbeat to slow.
Then it came again.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
This time, I sat up.
The sound wasn