Robert’s face was completely hidden.
Daniel watched silently.
The following morning, Ellen noticed a black ribbon attached to the window of the house.
Robert’s photograph stood beside the door.
Flowers had been placed next to it.
Ellen covered her mouth in horror.
“Oh my God… Robert is dead!”
Within hours, the news spread throughout the neighborhood.
People gathered outside the building, crying and remembering what a kind, hardworking man Robert had once been.
Everyone was convinced that his son’s cruelty had driven him to his death.
When Ellen approached Daniel and asked what had happened, the boy only said,
“The Robert you all knew these past few years will never come back.”
Ellen decided to contact the police.
She told them everything: the insults, the secret phone conversation, the mysterious vehicle in the middle of the night, and the black ribbon that had appeared the next morning.
