I leaned against the edge as I watch him dangle in the air, still screaming like a child for help.
We had chained the chair to the second floor, with a ridge at the top, it left him hanging in the air in the scorching sun.
Then I left him there for the whole day with the boys watching him as he dangled day and night.
I arrived the next morning to find him still dangling,
“Has he said anything?” I asked Calvin.
“No, he just falls in and out of consciousness from time to time” he responded.
“Bring him down” I ordered and the boys let him loose.
“Wakey wakey” Calvin yelled in his ears and he immediately opened his eyes.
“Please” he began crying and pleading.
I hadn’t even started.
“I killed her” he spills out.
I stopped Calvin in his tracks waiting for him to keep talking,
“I kil
