“Please don’t abandon me. You’re all I have left.”
Daniel looked at his father for a moment.
Then he turned to the men.
“You can begin.”
In the darkness, Ellen watched from her window as the men carried someone out of the house on a special transport stretcher covered with a sheet.
Robert’s face was completely hidden.
Daniel watched silently.
The following morning, Ellen noticed a black ribbon attached to the window of the house.
Robert’s photograph stood beside the door.
Flowers had been placed next to it.
Ellen covered her mouth in horror.
“Oh my God… Robert is dead!”
Within hours, the news spread throughout the neighborhood.
People gathered outside the building, crying and remembering what a kind, hardworking man Robert had once been.
Everyone was convinced that his son’s cruelty had driven him to his death.
When Ellen approached Daniel and asked what had happened, the boy only said,
