Veiled Innocence
“Pushing through the front door, I expected to walk into an empty house. That was not what greeted me.“Where the hell have you been?”My mom was sitting in the living room with her foot tapping the floor impatiently. “I walked—”“Cut the crap, Addison. It’s two o’clock. You left school at eight forty-five. Want to know how I know that? Miss Shrieve called to tell me.” She stood and made her way over to me. I looked at her perfectly styled hair and flawless face enhanced by touches of makeup and wo...ndered if she would mention the fact that her daughter had a bruised and swollen lip.“I walked home,” I told her again, cool and calm. She’d taught me over the last couple of years that the truth wasn’t rewarded—it was ignored and used against you.“You’re lying.”“So what? Do you even care?”Stopping only inches from me, her eyes flickered down to the cut on my mouth, and I purposefully tipped my chin up so she could see exactly what the monster in this house had done.“Answer me,”MoreLess
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