Something Was Locking Her Inside at Night | After Midnight

Tessa didn’t move for a fresh start—she moved because life boxed her in. A month-to-month duplex on the edge of town was supposed to be the simplest option she had left: clean, quiet, temporary.

Then she starts finding the chain latched from the inside—after she’s been outside. Deadbolts thrown in the middle of the day. Window alarms chirping once… with nothing open, nothing moved, nothing missing. The pattern isn’t chaos. It’s precision. Always the same focus. Always the boundary.

At first, she assumes it’s her—stress, exhaustion, a habit she doesn’t remember forming. But the more she watches, the more she realizes something is paying attention too.

And when footsteps finally linger outside her door, the apartment responds in a way that makes one unsettling truth impossible to ignore: Whatever is in this duplex isn’t trying to get her. It’s trying to keep something else out.

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