A 91-year-old widow was alone at home when she sensed danger — two thieves were attempting to rob her house. However, the older woman outwitted the thieves by devising a trap for them. When Vernon had asked for Dolores’s hand in marriage, he had promised that they would stay together until the end of their lives and even leave for their heavenly home together.
But sadly, fate wasn’t so kind to their plans and unexpectedly took Vernon away from Dolores one day due to a heart attack. After Vernon passed away, Dolores was mostly alone and on her own.
Vernon was a well-known antiquarian in town, and he owned a small antique shop that was doing quite well. He also stored some of his valuable antiques at home, which the neighbors were quick to notice and gossip about, leading to a series of robbery attempts at Dolores and Vernon’s shop and house.
As a result, when Vernon died, Dolores felt unsafe in her home. She was alone, and everyone in her neighborhood knew it. So even when her neighbors offered to help her, she was too afraid to accept their help.
One evening, Dolores was returning home from her shop when she noticed her 31-year-old neighbor, Bob, peering inside her house through the front gate. When he saw Dolores approaching, he sped up his steps and walked away, pretending he didn’t notice her.
Dolores had heard rumors that Bob was an alcoholic and unemployed and that his wife had left him and moved in with her parents. The man had been living alone at his house since then, and he would drink the whole day or roam around the neighborhood, feasting his eyes on other women.
Dolores ignored Bob at first because she knew he was a weirdo. However, the next day, she caught him staring at her. She was sitting on her balcony reading a book, and as she was about to turn to the next chapter, she noticed him looking at her through his bedroom window.
