My Mother

jaw tightened.

I could feel him wanting to speak, but he waited because he knew the rules of my family. In my mother’s world, any defense of me became proof that he had poisoned me against her.

I set the phone face down on my knee. “I’m not paying this right now.”

My mother laughed once, sharply. “Of course not.”

“This is not the time.”

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