Chapter 26: The Tense Drive Home

Riley

I wanted to laugh, but it would have come out as a sob. He had no idea that the person who hurt me was about to come back from the bathroom, that she would smile and thank him for protecting us, that she would wait until we were alone to show me her real face again.

"She's coming back," he said, and I looked up to see Mama walking toward us, with a smile on her face and a look in my direction to warn me that I should not have said anything I shouldn't say.

She'd cleaned most of the coffee out...