My Wife Locked My Daughter In The Basement

Ula’s heart softened when she heard this.

“Fine, let Faye out—”

Just then, Jordan’s voice came through the phone.

“It’s Eira’s birthday today. Put the phone away. Are you worried about Bernhard and Faye? They will be fine. We installed a new light in the basement, remember? Come on, blow out the candles with Eira.”

There was a light down there, but it was always sabotaged and never worked when Faye was locked in.

Ula let out a cold snort.

“What could possibly go wrong? There’s a light down there. You are still trying to trick me. You just want to get out and ruin Eira’s birthday party! How can you be so cruel? I’m telling you, you need to get your act together. If you don’t, Faye is going to end up just as rotten as you are.”

She then hung up without hesitation.

After my call with Ula, Eric became even more determined to ignore both Faye and me.

I could only hold Faye tightly and keep talking nonstop to stop her from falling asleep.

As I spoke, my voice began to choke up.

I was scared, too.

I was terrified of losing my beloved Faye while I held her in my arms.

I pressed my forehead against hers to be closer to her, and I suddenly felt something sticky on Faye’s forehead.

My heart instantly started racing with panic.

Through the sliver of light from the crack in the door, I saw blood.

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Just then, I recalled that Ula had struck Faye on the forehead with the stainless steel cake knife she had been holding in her fit of rage.

I screamed, and tears streamed down my face. I pounded on the door incessantly, crying out for help again.

The door swung open.

A glimmer of hope flashed before me, and I crawled out while holding Faye in my arms. However, Eric returned with an electric baton that Ula usually used to capture people during her night-time operations.

My eyes widened in horror as I scrambled backward, clutching Faye tightly against my chest. The next instant, the numbing pain of electric current surged through my entire body, and I cried out in agony.

Eric said harshly, “I told you to keep your mouth shut, and you’re still howling like a dog! Ms. Grove said that I could do whatever was needed to make you shut up and keep you from ruining the birthday party!”

I lost all strength the moment I was shocked. Bearing the pain all over my body, I showed the wound on Faye’s forehead to Eric.

“Ula injured Faye’s head. She’s just a little kid. She can’t handle it. She’s losing too much blood. Please, I’m begging you, take Faye to the hospital.”

I pleaded him for help.

That baton was extremely powerful. When typically used to catch people, two jolts were enough to put a person’s life at risk.

The single shock I was given had had a tremendous impact on my internal organs.

When Eric saw the blood on Faye’s face, his eyes widened in terror. He knew that Faye was not allowed to get hurt.

He hesitated for a moment before calling Ula again.

“Ms. Grove, Faye’s head is bleeding. Should I take her to the hospital?”

Ula massaged the muscle between her eyebrows. She was visibly annoyed.

“Why is Bernhard so full of tricks? That was just some red frosting from the cake that the brat stole from Eira. He’s just trying to pass it off as blood! Tell Bernhard this, if he wants to keep on making a fuss, he can rot in that basement for the rest of his life.”

After she hung up, Eric turned his anger on me.

“Ms. Grove was right about you. You’re nothing but a liar. Sit tight and don’t try anything else!”

With that, he kicked both Faye and me back into the basement.

The moment the door locked shut behind us, we were plunged into pitch darkness again.

Faye, unconscious in my arms, shuddered in fear.

She then began to cry and thrash with her eyes tightly shut. She was frowning hard, and her body trembled nonstop in my embrace, as if she were trapped in some terrible nightmare.

No matter how much I coaxed or called her, she would not wake up. I was so frightened that I did not know what to do.

I could only babble incoherently, “Faye! Oh, my little Faye. Can you hear me? I’m right here. It’s okay, sweetheart. Don’t be scared.”