“I clarified the truth.”
Ryan sat upright.
“Are you serious?”
“Completely.”
My mother leaned toward me, her voice low and shaking with rage beneath the sweetness. Pregnancy& Maternity
“This is embarrassing.”
I looked at the lobster shells, the champagne, the empty wine bottle, the plates no one had hesitated to order because they thought the cost would fall on me.
“Yes,” I said. “It is.”
My father’s jaw tightened.
“This is family.”