When my husband told my daughter, “You don’t even realize how beautiful your figure is,” I became seriously worried for the first time. A few weeks later, during a party, I noticed him whisper something to my daughter, and the two of them walked away together. Five minutes later, I was already standing outside a locked door…

When I walked in, they both went silent.

By then, I felt as if there was a secret inside my own home, and I was the only person who knew nothing about it.

Two weeks later, it was my sister Sarah’s birthday party. There were around twenty people in the house.

Music, laughter, children talking, the smell of food coming from the kitchen.

I kept trying to convince myself that I had simply become too suspicious over the past few weeks.

Until I saw Daniel. He was standing beside Emily and whispered something into her ear.

Emily looked at me for a moment. Then she nodded. Daniel left the room first.

About ten seconds later, Emily followed him.

My heart began pounding. I waited. One minute. Two. Three. They didn’t come back.