I stopped at a gas station trying to find my new home. The attendant raised his eyebrows as he said, "Take a right at the stoplight and go to the end of the road."
Thanking him, I followed the directions and arrived at the home that my Grandma had lived in all her life. Chuckling to myself, I said, "Home more like a haunted castle."
When I received the letter from her lawyer, I had just ended my engagement to my fiancé, Sam. I had hoped that as our wedding approached, he would put boundaries in place with his family. Six months before the wedding, he had asked if his parents could come with us on our honeymoon. He could not understand why I got upset about them being in the same villa as us. I told him that if he could not put boundaries up, then we needed to stop planning the wedding. The next day I came home to our apartment, and all of his belongings were gone. The next day, I received the letter from Grandma's lawyer stating that I was her sole beneficiary and that I inherited her property to do as I wanted. He even included a video of the estate that showed me everything I would need to know. With a fully furnished estate, I decided it was time to start the business I had always dreamed of. That was to create a boutique hotel. But the lawyer told me the building is a giant puzzle and there are a bunch of mysteries that will be solved in each and every room.
When I asked him whatkind of mysteries he chuckled and said "in every room, closet or space there can be 4-5 small gist wrapped boxes and there is a website where if the mystery is answered correctly you can win a prize."
The lawyer also mentioned that there was a small store set up at the beginning of the driveway for the things I did not want to keep.
Pulling up, I said, "Home sweet home."
Pulling along the driveway, I saw the store and continued on to the castle. I pulled up to the front steps and took out my key. Going to the door, I walked in and looked around. I almost expected to hear my parents walk through, claiming who is better at tennis and challenging each other. Sighing, I said, "You know I miss you all. I could have used you all right now to help me get through this."
Taking my bag, I walked up to the second floor and went to the owner's suite. Opening the door I expected to find my Grandma sitting near the windows, knitting. I was going to walk downstairs to meet the movers when my phone rang. Looking at the screen, I saw Sam was calling. Picking up I said, "Hello Sam what do you need?"
"Ella," He said. "I went to the apartment today, and the maintenance guy said you moved. We need to talk about what happened."
"Talk about what happened," I said. "Sam, you wanted your parents to come on our honeymoon. When I asked you to set boundaries, you wouldn't. Then I came home, and you moved out. No goodbye, you just left. So fine I inherited my Grandmas castle and I am going to turn it into a resort."
"But Ella, we can have our future," He said. "My parents could move in with us and help you run your resort."
"Sam listen to yourself," I said. "I would not have your parents live with us. If you do not understand, then we could never be together."
"Ella," he said. "I will give you time to cool down and then my parents and I will come see you to plan the wedding."
He hungup as I started to argue with him. The gate alarm buzzed and I let the movers bring everything from my apartment and my parents belongings to the castle. When they pulled up I handed the main person a map and said, "This has all the rooms labeled for the items."
He nodded and got the men to work bringing everything in. As they moved in both estates a car honked and my best friend Maggie pulled up. She got out and asked, "You doing okay?"
"Sure I am doing great," I said. "Sam thinks we are still getting married."
Shaking her head, she said, "We will deal with him later. I cannot stay for long because I have to get Matt from the airport. Why he couldn't ask my parents to come get him is beyond me. What I do for my older brother. But I brought some sandwiches so let us sit on the bench and talk."
We walked over to the bench and she handed me a bag. We pulled out the food, and she asked, "How are you financially? I know you quit your job when you moved here, and I worry about you."
"You do not need to worry," I said. "When I cancelled the wedding, I got back the deposits so that was $18000. I never touched the cash from my parents' estate so that is, 750 thousand. From Grandma, I inherited four million. The utilities have large payments on them so i will be good for a while."
She nodded and said, "Good. So what is your plan?"
"First things first." I said. "I am going to work on the owner's suite. That way I have my own space in all of this chaos. Besides, do you see that building at the main gate?"
She nodded and said, "Yes I do."
"The door is in the wall," I said. "It is my store so whatever I do not keep is going into the store. I will also have a few mysteries for us to go through at one time. There is 4-6 boxes that contain mysteries where I can win cash or prizes."
She jumped up and came back witha basket. Smiling she said, "It was going to hold your wedding gift so use it to hold the mysteries. When you fill it let me know we will spend a day working on them."
"That sounds like a plan," I said.
maggie looked at her phone and said, "I have to go get Matt. I will call you tomorrow."
She hugged me as the movers came out and said, "We are all finished."
I handed all the men a twenty and said, "Thank you."
One of the movers asked, "What are you going to do with this place?"
"I am going to turn this place into a boutique hotel," I said.
He asked, "Do you have a website?"
Chuckling I handed him a card and said, "I will be updating daily."
After they left I grabbed my camera and took pictures all over the property and throughout the castle.I ran out and went to a few fast food places to have dinner and a few heat up meals. After I checked out the fridge and pantry I will do a food shopping trip. A quick 150 later, I was on my way home and brought everything up to the owner's suite. Since the sitting room had a microwave and a fridge I could store some food. Placing the bags on the table, I ran down to the front door and made sure the doors were locked. Going back upstairs I sat at the table in the sitting area and started to update the castles website. I did put a disclaimer on the website that only the information posted by me is the accurate truth about the castle and what is happening there. After I had finished uploading everything I made another post about the first area being the owners suite that will be worked on. I took pictures and added them to the website.
After I ate I put everything away and I went down to the store and flipped the lights on. I saw Paper an tape under the counter and wrote a sign that said, Coming soon. I arranged the shelving and racks in the store and made sure the display case was ready for the higher end items. Then I went to my SUV and grabbed a few boxes along with my pull cart. Going upstairs I opened my grandfathers closet and started to go through the close. Since this closet was bigger I would use this closet when it was finished. I remembered to check all the pockets as I sorted and tagged all the items I did not want.I carried the boxes down to the cart and by the time my 9pm alarm went off I had finished a third of the closet was finished and I had a few of my Grandfathers things still hanging in the closet. I also found three mystery boxes, which i placed in the basket.
I took a shower and lay in bed ordering new drawer liners for the built-in storage drawers in the closet. I put the TV on and flipped to a show and befor I knew it I was asleep.
Ella- Main (4768800), 3 mystery boxes
Sam- Ex
Maggie- Best friend
Matt- Maggies brother
The Castle
- basement- stairwell
- under the stairsbasement-
- landingbasement-
- laundrybasement-
- laundry closetsbasement-
- furnace roombasement-
- storagebasement-
- canning roombasement-
- hunters roombasement-
- hunters closetbasement-
- Servants kitchenbasement-
- servents pantrybasement-
- servents laundry basement-
- Servants suite 1basement-
- servants suite 2basement-
- servants suite 3 basement-
- servants suite 4basement-
- servants bathroom 1basement-
- servants bunk room 1basement-
- servants bathroo 2basement-
- servents loungebasement-
- servants bunkroom 2basement-
- mudroom basement-
- enclosed patio for servantsbasement-
- hallway 1basement-
- hallway 2 basement-
- hallway 3 basement-
- hallway 4 basement-
- first floor- entry way
- poolfirst floor
- check in roomfirst floor
- coat roomfirst floor
- office first floor
- household officefirst floor
- hallway 1first floor
- hallway 2first floor
- hallway 3first floor
- hallway 4first floor
- kitchenfirst floor
- breakfast roomfirst floor
- pantryfirst floor
- butlers pantryfirst floor
- butlerssuitefirst floor
- head of maids suitefirst floor
- dining roomfirst floor
- formal party roomfirst floor
- ball roomfirst floor
- sitting roomfirst floor
- mens loungefirst floor
- smoking roomfirst floor
- attriumfirst floor
- sunroomfirst floor
- bathroom 1first floor
- bathroom 2first floor
- bathroom 3first floor
- storeroom 1first floor
- storeroom 2first floor
- grill roomfirst floor
- storage roomfirst floor
- cleaning roomfirst floor
- stairs to second floor
- landing to second floor
- second floor- sitting area
- owners master suite second floor- bedroom, master closet 1, master closet 2, bathroom, sitting area, office area, reading area
- nursery second floor
- nannys suite second floor
- childs suite 1 second floor
- childs suite 2 second floor
- childs suite 3 second floor
- hallway 1 second floor
- hallway 2 second floor
- hallway 3 second floor
- hallway 4 second floor
- cleaning closet second floor
- bathroom 1 second floor
- bathroom 2 second floor
- reading room second floor
- enclosed patio second floor
- sunroom second floor
- sewing room second floor
- billards room second floor
- music room second floor
- theatre second floor
- stairs to third floor
- landing to thirds floor
- third floor sitting area
- guest suite 1 third floor
- guest suite 2 third floor
- guest suite 3 third floor
- guest suite 4 third floor
- guest suite 5 third floor
- library third floor
- card playng room third floor
- television room third floor
- bethroom 1 third floor
- bathroom 2 third floor
- hallway 1 third floor
- hallway 2 third floor
- hallway 3 third floor
- hallway 4 third floor
- bathroom 1 third floor
- bathroom 2 third floor
- cleaning room third floor
- storage third floor
- ladies office third floor
- movie room third floor
- lounge third floor
- enclosed patio third floor
- sunroom third floor
- stairs to fourth floor
- landing to fourth floor
- Guest room 1 fourth floor
- guest room 2 fourth floor
- guest room 3fourth floor
- guest room 4fourth floor
- guest room 5fourth floor
- guest room 6fourth floor
- bathroom 1fourth floor
- bathroom 2fourth floor
- bathroom 3fourth floor
- Staff bunk room 1fourth floor
- staff bunk room mensfourth floor
- staff bathroom 1fourth floor
- staff bathroom 2fourth floor
- bowling alleyfourth floor
- mens hunting loungefourth floor
- Hallway 1fourth floor
- hallway 2fourth floor
- hallway 3 fourth floor
- hallway 4fourth floor
- loungefourth floor
- enclosed patiofourth floor
- art roomfourth floor
- sunroomfourth floor
- saunafourth floor
- hot tub roomfourth floor
- spafourth floor
- reading roomfourth floor
- stairs to fifth floor
- landing to fifth floor
- roof top garden fifth floor
- roof top greenhouse fifth floor
- observatoryfifth floor
- party room fifth floor
- hallway 1 fifth floor
- hallway 2 fifth floor
- hallway 3 fifth floor
- hallway 4 fifth floor
- bathroom 1 fifth floor
- bathroom 2 fifth floor
- bathroom 3 fifth floor
- bathroom 4 fifth floor
- dance room fifth floor
- sporting room fifth floor
- sun room fifth floor
- lounge fifth floor
- stairs to attic
- attic
- attic storage
- mini suite 1 attic
- mini suite 2 attic
- mini suite 3 attic
- bathroom attic
- attic lounge
- attic bathroom
- attic hallway 2
- attic cleaning room
- pool house walkway
- pool house suite 1
- pool house suite 2
- pool house mother in law suite
- pool house bathroom
- pool house changing room 1
- pool house changing room 2
- path to the gardens
- garden suites hallway
- garden suite 1
- grden suite 2
- garden suite 3
- garden suite 4
- pathway to the garages
- garage 1
- garage 2
- garage 3
- suite 1 garage
- suite 2 garage
- suite 3 garage
- garage tinker room
- garage repair room
- garage tool room
- garage bathroom 1
- garage bathroom 2
- path to boat house
- boathouse storage house
- boathouse suite 1
- boathouse suite 2
- boathouse suite 3
- pathways to garden cottage
- garden cottage 1
- gardern cottage 2
- garden cottage 3
- garden cottage 4
- Path to the sporting areas
- tennis courts
- patio to sporting areas
- shuttle board courts
- basketball courts
- sports cottage 1
- sports cottage 2
- sports cottage 3
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