Healing Bonds

Don's POV.

The drive home was quiet, the kind of silence that screamed louder than words. I had left my mother sitting in that restaurant, her carefully curated composure hiding whatever emotions she didn’t want to show. I couldn’t get her words out of my head…her twisted justification for what she’d done to Dominic.

"All for you, Don," she’d said.

If only she understood how little I wanted any of