Chapter 7: Don't Be My Mother
(Aurora's POV)
His voice echoed up the stairwell.
I looked down at him. He kneeling on the landing below, Sienna pressed against his chest, his hands shaking against her face.
I felt nothing.
My mother shoved past me and grabbed my wrist with both hands, her nails digging in.
"What did you do?" Her voice cracked against the narrow walls. "What is wrong with you? She came here to talk, and you pushed her down the stairs? After everything she's done for this family? After everything I sacrificed to give you a decent life? How did I raise someone like you?"
I looked at her fingers wrapped around my wrist. Then I looked at her face.
For the first time in my life, I didn't look away.
I grabbed her wrist back. Hard. Hard enough that she flinched.
