Nothing But a Name

Raina

The room had gone so quiet I could hear the ice shifting in Arthur's glass, the small clink of it the only sound moving through a space that had, only minutes earlier, been full of laughter and the easy clatter of a family pretending to enjoy itself.

"Excuse me," I said, turning to face my sister fully.

"You heard me," Daphne said, lifting her chin, color rising along her throat in a way tha