Chapter 24

Scarlett’s POV

On a scale of one to ten, the likelihood of someone having entered the house is one percent. We have an electric fence, and I doubt anyone would want to challenge that. But I believe someone has. Both of us heard a noise downstairs, and we looked at each other cautiously, as if fearing someone might enter the room at any moment.

With a sigh, I grabbed the pepper spray and started descending the stairs. Olive was behind me. We approached slowly until we realized the noise was coming from the kitchen. When we turned on the light and yelled, we realized there was nothing to fear. Because William and Francis were standing there, with the fridge open.

They were the ones who had the decency to give us a near heart attack and try to scare us to death today. I don’t see any strangers around, I lower my arms in surrender, and I flip them off. I won’t be able to sleep for the rest of the night now; the sleep I had has been ruined, and the two idiots in