Chapter 6 - Examining The Contents Of Chloe's Secret Stash
With the immediate threat neutralized, Marcus turned his full, undivided attention back to safeguarding his terrified little girl.
Chloe buried her tear-stained face into her father's chest, her tiny fingers clutching the worn brown teddy bear for dear life.
“You’re safe now, sweetheart, Daddy is right here and nobody will ever hurt you again,” Marcus whispered soothingly into her hair.
As he comforted her, he noticed a small, zippered pouch tucked inside the pocket of Chloe's hospital pajama top.
Unzipping it carefully, Marcus pulled out a collection of hidden notes written in shaky, childish crayon handwriting.
Grandma said Daddy won't love me if I stay sick, read the first heartbreaking line scrawled across the pink paper.
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Marcus felt a white-hot rage building deep inside his chest that eclipsed anything he had ever experienced in his entire life.
His own mother had been systematically terrorizing a six-year-old child in a hospital bed while pretending to be a doting matriarch.
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