“You actually came,” he said. “Thought you’d just send someone else.”
“I gave you forty-eight hours. You have until six p.m. tomorrow. I’m here to make sure you’re taking your things, not mine.”
Brittany set down a dish.
“Kyle, let’s just finish and go, please.”
Kyle threw his phone onto the couch.
“You humiliated Mom in front of everyone. Do you have any idea what you did to her reputation?”
“I showed people the truth. That’s all.”
“The truth is family helps each other. But you wouldn’t know anything about that, would you? Too busy with your fancy job in your empty house.”
Rachel tensed beside me.
I kept my voice level.
“Family asks. Family communicates. Family respects boundaries. What you and Mom did was entitlement. And I’m done pretending otherwise.”
Kyle stared at me for a long moment.
Then something in him deflated.
