Every night my son took a shower at 3 a.m., and I kept telling myself it was just stress—until curiosity made me look through the bathroom door and I saw something so horrifying, so familiar, and so wicked that I left his home for a retirement community before sunrise… but I

I stared at my phone, waiting.

Around 10:00 at night, my phone rang.

It was Hazel’s number.

I snatched it up.

“Hello, Hazel. How are you?”

“Mom…”

The voice on the other end was trembling and frantic.

“I… I told him.”

“What did he do? Did he do anything to you?”

“He… he…”

Hazel’s words were cut off by a scream, followed by Nicholas’s furious roar.

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