Matthew didn’t even blink.
“I filed the transfer this morning.”
That was when everything broke.
Danielle stepped forward, panic flashing across her face. “You can’t just throw us out!”
Matthew’s gaze hardened.
“Funny,” he said. “That didn’t seem to bother you twenty minutes ago.”
My mother reached for me then, her voice suddenly soft, desperate.
“Lucy, honey… we didn’t mean it like that, we were just trying to help your sister—”
I took a step back.
For the first time in my life.
“Don’t,” I said.
One word.
But it stopped her completely.
