{"id":26505,"date":"2025-08-26T13:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26505"},"modified":"2025-08-26T13:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T13:51:11","slug":"26505","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26505","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, Mother. It doesn\u2019t happen to normal people,\u201d Marcus snapped, his furious gaze still locked on Anna. \u201cThis is what happens when you\u2019re distracted and careless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anna lowered her head, the familiar sting of tears threatening to fall. She knew the drill. The best course of action was to be silent, to not provoke his anger further. But tonight was different. Tonight, she was ready.<\/p>\n<p>The tension in the room stretched to a breaking point. Arthur watched the scene unfold in silence, as if it were a common, uninteresting play. Eleanor nervously fiddled with her napkin.<\/p>\n<p>Without warning, Marcus shot up from his chair. He grabbed Anna\u2019s arm, his grip like a vise. \u201cCome on,\u201d he snarled, pulling her towards the exit. \u201cI need to have a word with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26507\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23467\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/340C4489-16D4-4656-9B02-A344BA7D4DAB-1-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Mother. It doesn\u2019t happen to normal people,\u201d Marcus snapped, his furious gaze still locked on Anna. \u201cThis is what happens when you\u2019re distracted and careless.\u201d Anna lowered her head, the familiar sting of tears threatening to fall. She knew the drill. The best course of action was to be silent, to not provoke his&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=26505\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26531,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26505\/revisions\/26531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}