My Father Forced My Mother to Wear Only Long Sleeves and Fully Covered Clothes for 47 Years. After His Death, When I Saw My Mother’s Bare Arms for the First Time, I Immediately Reached for My Phone to Call the Police. My Mother Stopped Me, but What She Told Me Next Made Me Break Down in Tears…

I stared at my mother’s arms.

“So those scars… they’re from the fire?”

She nodded.

“Yes. But that’s not the end of the story.”

I felt my heart pounding again.

“At the hospital, when they removed my bandages for the first time, I broke down crying. I thought everyone would see my arms and start asking about Daniel. I couldn’t even bear to hear his name.”

My mother paused.

“At first, I was the one who asked your father to buy me long-sleeved clothes. He did everything he could to make sure nobody asked me questions.”

“But why did he keep forbidding you from wearing anything revealing?”

Tears rolled down her cheeks.

“Because as the years passed, your father became terrified that I would fall apart again. Whenever I tried to change the way I dressed, he remembered how broken I had been in the hospital. He believed he was protecting me. But little by little, his fear became a rule.”