The Perfect Victim
"I'm so sorry, honey... I didn't catch it properly and spilled the water. Honey, did you burn your hand? That water looked really hot."
Her soft expression overlapped with the memory of her madness in my mind.
The last time I had simply poured her a glass of water that was not exactly the 55 degrees she demanded, she had gone insane and tried to hack me with a kitchen knife.
I stood there, frozen.
Meanwhile, the live comments were flying across the screen.
[Isn't this abuse? That water was hot enough to cook a steak!]
[Even if Claire can't feel her legs, you can't just do that to her.]