hours to a city hotel, destroying the burner phone used to make the booking. The next day, he filed a police report — but even that felt inadequate in the face of what they had experienced.
That night, as the narrator lay awake beside his wife, one chilling thought haunted him: safety is an illusion. Online reviews and cozy listing photos offer false comfort. Behind the walls of a seemingly normal home could be something far more sinister. And sometimes, the blinking light isn’t there to warn you — it’s there to watch.
