I looked at Sofia. For the first time, I saw something in her eyes: pure ambition.
“You couldn’t carry it all alone,” she said. “I was just trying to protect what we’ve built.”
But it wasn’t protection.
It was control.
“And the empty plate?” I asked.
My mother shrank back. “Sometimes… I’m not hungry.”
Sofia jumped in. “She’s on a diet. She’s obsessed with losing weight.”
But I’d seen that icy tone before. “Either you eat that, or you know what’s coming to you.”
What did “what’s coming to you” mean?
I looked at my mother again. “Tell me the truth.”