Chapter 11.

Dinner.

Santiago had been impressed by the way Grandpa Yurik was kind to him, so much so that he had asked him to join them for dinner, since it was a lot of food, and it didn't cost them anything to share a little.

He didn't want to have to go out and buy something to eat when he was so tired either… Dinner was completely silent, no one spoke at the table, which was completely unfamiliar… or maybe it was because the food was too delicious to waste time with words.

The only thing that was certain was that he had to find the culprit of the murders… while he sat on the bed after having eaten and taken a shower, he replayed the recordings over and over again in slow motion of the crime, and it was completely disturbing to see how the murderer stopped and looked at the house where he was at that moment, so realizing the window was closed, Santiago got up and opened it…

And looking at his player, he could see that the murderer was looking directly at Ritchie's room. ¿Could it be possible that the murderer knew that the young man slept there and was somehow considering the possibility of entering through the window, shooting the boy in the head and dismembering the grandfather in the other room and then getting rid of the bodies?...

The possibility was present, everything was possible… At that moment, the boy entered the room and Santiago, seeing him, asked him directly: ¿has anyone else come to stay in this house before? 

Ritchie denied it and told him sincerely: no one has come to stay here; All our lives it has been the grandfather and I in this place, you are the first person who is going to stay here, so Santiago said to him: okay, but on the night of the murder, ¿didn't you hear a strange noise? ¿Didn't you feel that something was wrong or something you want to talk to me about?

Immediately, the boy's mind came to the encounter with the murderer's gaze and how careless he had been to leave the window open, but he couldn't say it, he couldn't even somehow confess to him that he could already recognize the murderer's face when he came to knock on his door.

Santiago noticed the silence in the question he had asked the young man, it was as if he was seriously thinking about whether to speak or not to speak, and then a change of attitude was the main thing he could read on his face when the boy told him: I was deeply asleep, I didn't see or hear anything, I know absolutely nothing about what happened that day.

Leaving aside the questions, Santiago could feel that the boy was lying to him, the lie was evident on his face, because the way he read his expressions showed that he was hiding something, but the big question was what was it that he was hiding and ¿why was he doing it?, ¿was he trying to cover up the murderer because he knew him?