The Watcher in Room 314

Chapter One: The Silence in the Rain

It had been raining since midnight, the kind of relentless downpour that seeped through old walls and settled into your bones. The kind of rain that turned silence into a sound of its own. Ayesha Narang stepped out of the auto, pulling her damp shawl tighter across her shoulders as the iron gates of Lakshmi Mental Health Institute creaked open before he…