Turning the Tables

Vivian slowly lifted her gaze from the glossy auction catalog. The grating, mocking voice echoing above her belonged to Fiona Thorne, her former sister-in-law. Fiona stood in the grand hall, her eyes burning with a toxic, unhinged contempt. Beside Fiona stood Beatrice, Vivian’s deeply elitist former mother-in-law, carrying herself with an air of practiced, rigid grace. Only a handful of elite gues