“You will make your old father run after you?” Ophelia heard her father’s voice say behind her. It was deceptively low and gentle again.She hesitated for one second, which when she would think back to this moment months later, she would conclude had been very foolish of her, and her father appeared.He was standing a few meters from her.How had he moved so fast? He was an old man, and she had not heard him running. She stood frozen, suddenly unable to move from the terror she felt, as she stared into his eyes.His eyes were like a wild animal’s, ready to pounce.“Someone lock that door.” Her father called out in a loud voice, and before she could even turn fully, she heard the door close. But when she looked, she saw no one.So they were here after all. They were here, and the house was this silent, and no one would save her.“Father,” She screamed as he closed the distance between them, so purple with rage he looked like a demon from hell.Strength finally went into her legs, and
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