The Unbearable Truth

DAPHNE

I stared at my mother, my entire body frozen in shock. The words that had just left her mouth felt like a slap, a sharp sting that cut through me in ways I hadn’t expected. I blinked, trying to process what I had just heard, but the more I replayed it in my mind, the more unbearable it became.

I should leave the marriage for Vanessa?

It didn’t make sense. It couldn’t.

I must have misheard h