The Ugly Truth

Daphne

Mama was in the kitchen when I arrived.

She took one look at my face and put the kettle on without saying anything. That was the thing about my mother; she could read a room before she read a person, and right now the room I had brought with me was ugly.

I sat down at the kitchen table.

"Raina is fucking Kaelen," I said.

Evelyn turned from the kettle.

"Daphne—"

"I'm not asking. I'm telling