Then she stopped abruptly.
“Oh my God…” she whispered.
I stepped closer.
And finally saw it.
On the white bedsheet, crawling slowly across the pillow, was a large dark scorpion.
Larissa was trembling so badly she could barely stand.
“I—I lifted the pillow and it was there!” she cried.
My father finally snapped out of his shock.
“Don’t move,” he said calmly.
He grabbed a shoe from the floor and carefully approached the bed.