"Why should we really come here?" Dennis kept asking as they stared at the door to his apartment. The building was rundown and leaking in too many places. Rats ran along the corridors like they owned the place, and the smell was nauseating.
Just the kind of place for a creep like this, Dennis thought.
Everyone saw right through his causal question. He wanted to put up a front of thinking this was just useless, but everyone knew he was afraid of 'Dad'.
'Dad' would tie him to the bed in the basement and whip him until there were red welts crisscrossing his back.
'Dad' would starve him for days as he beat him up, asking him to reveal where the 'commies' were hiding.
'Dad' would bathe him on a Monday morning and tell him that if he told anyone what was happening, he would be dead by supper.
'Dad' got away with his crimes, and he grew up tormented.
Mona placed her arm on his shoulder and hugged him closer.
"Dennis, we all understand that this is the last place you'd want to be, but we need this," she said.
Elise looked away; it'd become very hard for her to show compassion, and her children complained that all she expressed was indignation. That was the only expression she had ever shown since he came back from the war.
Swallowing her fast-rising anger, she rapped on the door twice, mumbling "Let's settle this," to herself.
He opened the door and gasped.
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Such a cliffhanger 😑😑😑 should definitely wait for this to end too before i read ;;-;;