Chapter 24 - DilemmaGetting out of the cellar under the old Victorian undetected and getting a message to Mel were my top two priorities. I tried in vain to send her a text from my seated position on the dirt floor but there was no reception down there.
I got up gingerly and flexed my knees. The pain from my injury combined with the effects of the cool dampness of the pseudo dungeon I was in was superseded by the throbbing pain in my tongue. I prayed the latter at least would dissipate soon.
Gingerly I picked my way back across the bigger room to the smaller room under the kitchen. As I was about to remount the sandstone stairs to go up, the floor above me creaked with the weight of someone walking across it. I stood as still as I could possibly manage and held my breath too, not wanting
