Unforgiven

Vance

"What has she told you this time?" I asked, already feeling my patience thinning.

My mom straightened up in her chair, folding her hands the way she always did when she was about to defend someone she had no business defending. "What has that poor girl done to deserve everything you are doing to her?" she asked, her voice sharp, like she was the one owed an explanation instead of me.

I let o