Chapter 329

~Daphne~

I sat across from my parents at the kitchen table and finally said the thing I had been avoiding for two weeks.

"Kaelen is not my husband," I said. "Not really."

Evelyn set her cup down.

The kitchen had gone quiet in the way it did when something true finally entered a room that had spent months filled with things everyone politely agreed not to say out loud. My mother's face did not move