I froze.
“But do you want to keep doing it?”
Emily thought for a moment.
“Sometimes I get really tired, Mommy. But he says that one day you’ll be very happy.”
Those words frightened me even more.
The following morning, instead of going to work, I parked my car on the next street.
I waited twenty minutes, then quietly returned home.
The downstairs room’s door was slightly open.
I heard John’s voice coming from inside.
“We have to finish today. Mommy mustn’t know until everything is ready.”
“But my hands already hurt,” Emily replied.
“I know, sweetheart. Let’s try one last time. Remember, hold it with your left hand and move your right hand slowly.”
I couldn’t take it anymore.
I pushed the door open.
“JOHN! GET AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER RIGHT NOW!”
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Emily jumped in fright, and John turned toward me. But when I saw what my daughter was holding in her tired little hands, I froze.