The Breaking Point

DOMINIC

I stared at my mother, my pulse pounding in my ears. The words she had just spoken clung to the air, suffocating, heavy, weighing down on me like a crushing force.

Divorce Daphne.

It was as if the entire room had fallen into silence. My fingers curled into fists, nails biting into my palm as I processed what she had just said.

“Come again?” My voice was low, barely above a whisper, but the