Assignment for 3/2

He returned home, to a silent house
wrapped in darkness, late at night.
He thought everyone had gone
to sleep, dreaming peacefully in their beds.
His wife and niece, safe and sound, home and warm.
So to bed he went, content with the day.
He awoke the next morning, to eerie
silence. A shudder ran through him.
His wife lay still next to him,
dead. Panic sparked through him;
he ran to his niece to see if the same fate
greeted her. He turned his head away from
the gruesome scene before him.
His wife and niece, murdered at home.
The murderer left the bodies as they
were, sleeping in their beds,
which they thought were safe.
His family, slain under his roof.
He was supposed to protect them
from this terror- from this fate.