I Let My Mother Think She’d Secured My Sister’s Wedding

screen still open.

She glanced at it.

Then smiled.

“Oh. That.”

No surprise. No concern. Nothing.

Emma inhaled quietly behind me.

My mother folded her hands together, exactly the way she always did before explaining why someone else needed to sacrifice.

“I borrowed it. For Kelsey’s wedding.”

Kelsey. My younger sister. The one everything revolved around.

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