“Grandma…” – I burst into tears.
Dad knew this, he knew that his stepmother didn’t give him breakfast, and when it came to food, he only ate half a bowl, and even scolded me when I asked for more. Dad slammed the table angrily:
“If you continue to treat my daughter like this, I will divorce you immediately!”
At that time, I thought I was saved, I thought the darkness would pass. But unexpectedly, it didn’t stop there.
As she waited for her father to go to work far away, her face immediately changed. She pulled the door of the room tightly, she called her daughter, her voice was as cold as ice:
“Come here, I will teach you how to be polite now!”
My heart beat faster. Outside the yard, the neighbors were still carelessly sweeping the leaves, the sound of chickens crowing in the distance, but no one knew that inside that closed door, the nightmare had begun.
He made her sit down, closed the door tightly, and his eyes were as sharp as knives. Then something terrible happened – something I never thought I, as a child, would have to suffer. The sound of her crying was cut off in her throat, not daring to call for help because she was afraid the neighbors would find out, afraid her father would find out…
The whole house trembled as if there was no air. Only a terrifying whisper remained:
“Don’t think your father can protect you… Here, you are too much!”