{"id":28976,"date":"2025-10-13T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28976"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:39:45","slug":"28976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28976","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1668\" data-end=\"1737\">\u201cWhere\u2019s Sophie supposed to sleep tonight, Eric? The garage again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1739\" data-end=\"1760\">His smirk faltered.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1819\">\u201cShe needed discipline. Megan agrees, don\u2019t you, babe?\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"1821\" data-end=\"1874\">Megan looked away, silent tears streaking her face.<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"1876\" data-end=\"1990\">I took a step closer, my voice low but steady. \u201cDiscipline doesn\u2019t mean starving a child. You\u2019re finished here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1992\" data-end=\"2053\">He sneered. \u201cWhat are you gonna do, soldier boy? Shoot me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2055\" data-end=\"2142\">I didn\u2019t have to. \u201cLeave. Tonight. Or the men I called will make sure you disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2288\">For the first time, fear flickered in his eyes. He grabbed his keys and stormed out. The silence that followed was heavier than any firefight.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2144\" data-end=\"2288\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28977\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26790\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhere\u2019s Sophie supposed to sleep tonight, Eric? The garage again?\u201d His smirk faltered. \u201cShe needed discipline. Megan agrees, don\u2019t you, babe?\u201d Megan looked away, silent tears streaking her face. I took a step closer, my voice low but steady. \u201cDiscipline doesn\u2019t mean starving a child. You\u2019re finished here.\u201d He sneered. \u201cWhat are you gonna do,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28976\" 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\/28976"}],"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=28976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28985,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28976\/revisions\/28985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}