The Girl Who Heard Her Father Crying Beneath the Floor

Daniel smiled through a sudden rush of quiet tears, feeling an overwhelming wave of gratitude wash over his soul as he looked down at his daughter, realizing that they had finally made it out of the dark. He leaned down close to her pillow and softly, tenderly began singing the comforting lullaby she had carried like a hidden treasure in her heart through all those long, terrifying months when she thought she had lost him forever. And as the familiar, soothing melody drifted through the quiet bedroom, wrapping around the little girl like a warm embrace, Emily finally closed her eyes and drifted off into a deep, untroubled sleep—free forever from the ghosts of the past, and utterly without fear of the man under the house.