“Grandma puts me in the freezer when I spill my juice,” my 7-year-old daughter sobbed in my arms. As I carried her to my heated truck, she gestured to a second, padlocked freezer hidden under my old boxes. “Don’t touch that one,” she whispered. “That’s where Grandpa went eight years ago…”

behind her gold-rimmed glasses.

“Mark,” she said smoothly, taking a slow sip of tea. “You’re early. And you’re making a terrible racket.”

“You locked my daughter in a freezer,” I snarled, stepping into the room, clutching the crowbar so hard my knuckles turned white. “She’s in my truck right now, shivering, blue, barely breathing!”

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