The Daughter in the Cellar

I wake up locked in a cage, in freezing darkness.

She didn’t rescue me. She chose me. She tells me I’m the daughter she never had…

Twelve hours earlier. I noticed her watching me on the train. An elderly woman with kind eyes. Motherly, almost.

I was on my way to a college reunion, where my ex was going to be. The man I never wanted to see again.

When the train was diverted, the nice old woman offered me a lift…

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