Brutal Clarity

~Kaelen~

She was eating when I came back downstairs.

Sitting at the kitchen table with a plate in front of her, having the composure of someone who had decided that eating was the correct response to having just sat through that sitting room. The Beaumonts had gone. Grandma and Bea had taken Leo somewhere in the house. It was just Daphne and the plate and the kitchen and me.

I pulled out the chair