No one could possibly—
Then she spoke again.
“They told me to stand outside until I learned my place.”
The world seemed to stop.
For a moment, I couldn’t hear the wind.
Couldn’t hear the music.
Couldn’t hear anything at all.
Just those words.
Learn my place.
And in that instant, I knew one thing with absolute certainty.
Whatever happened next…
My daughter was not spending another night in that house.