https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093HCZWSL | 2021-04-27, 12:23 PM |
Only love can save you from the past. "Now Sweetie, can you tell us one more time what exactly did you see in your Father's basement that day? I promise you that everything will be okay. This will all be over soon. What did you see?" She blinks a few times, holding her old and ragged stuffed animal closer to her body for comfort as she stares at the man with her big, doe eyes. She removes the thumb she was suckling and blinks up at him. She did not see the point of repeating it for the hundredth time today. She wanted her mommy and her older brother, Maxwell. "Where’s mommy?” The man looked at his partner, and they exchanged a look before focusing it back on the ten-year-old child in front of them. "Your mommy went to get dinner and your brother. Once you say it one more time, you are free to go. Please, this is very important. You want to help the nice woman you saw, right?" She nods, not knowing how life-changing the following statement out of her mouth would be. "I saw a naked woman tied down on an old yellow bed, and blood was all over her body inside my daddy's cellar room." "And why were you there in the first place?” "Because—"
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