“It’s okay now, Lily. Mommy’s here.”
The men laughed. “No, lady. It won’t be okay. Since you came, things just got worse.”
A man who looked like the leader walked over with a sinister grin.
“Let us go! I already called the police. They’re on their way!”
“Heh, in this line of work, do you think I’m afraid of that?”
One of his men kicked me, knocking my phone away. I fell hard onto the ground. Lily sobbed, begging them not to hurt me, but they ignored her.
Soon the mob surged forward. They punched and kicked me until I passed out.
When I woke again, I thought I was in heaven. The smell of antiseptic filled the air, and the ceiling was white as snow. I pinched myself.
“Am I… in a hospital?”
I looked at my legs in disbelief. They were broken, hanging in casts.
“I… I didn’t die? I’m in a hospital? But where’s Lily?”
Panicked, I looked around, but everything was quiet. Midnight.
Then I heard whispers from the next room:
“Daddy, just because Mommy didn’t give Aunt Sarah the parking spot and caused her death, you’re getting revenge? You made me pretend to be kidnapped, then lured Mommy here so she’d get her leg broken, and now she’ll walk with a limp forever?”
“What about Mommy’s daily life?”