I found my daughter trembling in the laundry room with a red mark on her cheek. “Daddy… Please don’t make me apologize again,” she sobbed. My heart broke as I held her. Ten minutes later, while looking for ice, I found a hidden recording device in the washing machine that revealed…

out and handed me the plush bear she had been clutching. And as I looked down, the tiny, red recording light blinking silently on the bear’s belly revealed that they had just handed me the weapon to execute them all.

Chapter 3: The Loading of the Weapon

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