My stepfather invited my mother and me into a private pool… But when I arrived, he was the only one who was there — my mother had disappeared… and he had already locked the door 
My stepfather had never invited my mother and me to a place like that before.
So when he suddenly wrote to me saying that he had booked a private pool for all three of us, I immediately felt that something was not right.
“Your mother already said yes,” he wrote. “Come tomorrow afternoon.”
I called my mother.
He didn’t answer.
I tried again that same night.
Nothing.
So, already in the evening, I received a brief message from him.
“Everything is fine. See you tomorrow.”
But there was something strange about that message.
My mother always called me honey.
He always added a heart or a smiling face.
That message had nothing.
No warmth.
No explanation.
