Ten years ago...
Edith was walking down the stairs, her small footsteps leading her to the living room, where she saw her mother and father standing and talking with two men. Edith looked at the four adults in front of her from behind the wall dividing the living room from the corridor.
Edith saw that her father had raised his voice to one of the larger men. Her father looked angry at the two men, while her mother stood silently beside her father with her hand clasped tightly.
"Maxence, check upstairs! The girl must be in her room."
"Not before you step over my dead body!" said her father angrily.
"I'll be happy to do it," said the big man.
The man named Maxence immediately took a step to leave the room and head upstairs, but her mother held him back. She stretched her hand forward a
