I fell asleep out of boredom after reading a book one of the maids, Meri brought to me.
DREAM.
"Daddy, wake up." I cried the words into the silence, my small hands pressing against his cold chest.
He lay still, facing away from me. I shook him again, harder this time. His arm flopped to the side like a doll's, and there was something red all over his arm. What is that? I wondered, but hten my stomach growled again, and I refocused on my task.
''Daddy.''
The room smelled of mildew and a strange metal scent.
"Daddy, I'm hungry," I whispered, my voice cracking. My stomach twisted like a clenched fist. I pressed my face into his arm, hoping to feel the rise and fall of breath, but there was nothing, and his body was freezing.
When he ignored me again, I went to the kitchen, my bare fee
