Gears start spinning in my head. Since I did turn on the alarm, but now it doesn’t work, someone turned it off. And this can only mean one thing - there is someone in the house. And that someone is definitely not my brother. I remember that when I approached the house, the light in the windows was not on ... "Thieves!" It flashes right through my head. With trembling hands, I pull out the phone from the bag and poked the screen with naughty fingers, dialing Andrey's number. "The subscriber's device is off," a mechanical voice informs me. Class…

Very slowly, on stiff legs, I creep along the corridor,...