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The tears she’d tried so hard to hold in spilled free, but she didn’t care It felt good to cry, like all that pain was being released
The only sound that could be heard after she said all of that was the grandfather clock in the foyer chi the hour
“Mary, honey—”
Mary shook her head, stopping hera response I just needed it out in the open I was tired of having all of that bottled up, but it’s out in the open now, and just know that I will not be ain”
Mary exhaled, looked at her o, who, for the first tienuinely ashamed, like she finally understood what she’d done to Mary, and how she’d made her feel
“I have to go,” she addressed the rooo “But I’ll be at the salon tomorrow” She didn’t wait for anyone else to reply, and just as she got to the front door, she heard a rush of conversation and her father’s deep voice
“You did that to hter, you little bastard?” Her father said with unrestrained anger
“Oh my God,” her mother hissed “How could you do that to her? Shameful and disrespectful, and you had the nerve to accepthow you hurt her”
Mary wrapped her hand around the door handle just as she heard her rit out, “I want you out of hter You hear me?”
“And here you had all of us fooled, Lance” Margo held this strange note in her voice
And when Mary heard her ht and painful speared through her chest She looked over her shoulder to where everyone was, but she couldn’t see theo back there She’d said her piece and did need to be alone She didn’t want to talk about this with them anymore, didn’t want to rehash all the details her mother would want
She just… didn’t
She opened the door, a crack of lightning arching through the sky followed by a boom of thunder And when the sky opened up and the rain came down harder, she exhaled Of course this was the perfect ending to the fucked up night
She was heading to her car just as she heard the front door open and slam shut She kneho it was, refused to stop or turn around, but knew she wouldn’t be able to stop this altercation, when she felt Lance now standing right behind her