She slammed her fist on the table.

“And when everything was done — she wasn’t needed anymore. That’s all!”

The silence that followed was more terrifying than a scream.

The wife wasn’t cruel. Not insane. Not jealous or evil. She was greedy.

And for money, she locked the old woman in the shed, waiting for her to “break on her own.”

But she made one mistake — sometimes soldiers come home earlier than expected.