My stepson is 17 and stays with us on weekends. Suddenly, my daughter, 14, started begging me to stop him from coming over. She refused to explain why. One day, I went to his room and noticed a strange pile of socks near his bed. I moved them aside—and froze. Hidden underneath was…
a stack of notebooks, each carefully marked with dates. For a moment, I felt confused more than anything else. My stepson had always been quiet, polite, and reserved, never causing trouble. But the way my daughter had reacted lately made me look at everything with a different level of caution. I picked up the top notebook with shaky hands, unsure of what I was about to discover. When I opened it, I didn’t find anything alarming—but what I did find was surprising enough that it took my breath away. Continue reading…
