At the office she couldn’t settle down all day. Every little thing felt suspicious — a strange question from a colleague about her neighborhood, documents disappearing even though she was sure she had filed them properly. With every passing hour, the heavy feeling inside her grew stronger, as if an invisible hand were squeezing her heart more tightly.

By the evening, the drizzle had turned into fog, and the old woman’s words echoed louder than the noise of the cars.

Susanna stopped at a crosswalk, took out her phone, and almost without thinking booked a bed in a nearby hostel. That night, she didn’t go home.

The next morning, she arrived at the old woman earlier than usual. The elderly woman lifted her head as if she had been waiting for her. And that morning, she told her something that made Susanna’s hair stand on end 😱😱 Continued in the first comment 👇👇

That night, while Susanna slept at the hostel, her fourth-floor apartment burned down completely — the firefighters said the door had been forced open and that the fire started in several places at once.

And then came the explanation that made Susanna’s blood run cold. The old woman said that two nights earlier she had overheard two men following Susanna after work, discussing a plan to “finish her tonight” and “take the apartment without any fuss.”

She had been afraid they would chase her away if she intervened, so she waited until morning, when she could warn Susanna without witnesses.

Later, it turned out that those two men were Susanna’s ex-husband and his friend, who had decided to get rid of her for the sake of her apartment.

And only thanks to the old woman — her worry and her courage — Susanna survived.