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MAXWELLI find my mother still at the table when I storm back inside, staring at nothing, one hand pressed against her temple like she's trying to physically hold her skull together."Mom. Did you hear what he just said back there? Did you actually sit there and listen to him announce that.""I heard, Maxwell.""And? That's it? That's your entire reaction?"She closes her eyes. "I have a headache that feels like it's splitting my head in two, and I don't have anything left in me tonight to give you.""He married Selene." My voice climbs, cracking slightly on her name, still raw from saying it too many times already tonight. "My Selene. In front of everyone. With guards, Mom. He brought guards to his own family dinner because he knew exactly what kind of bomb he was dropping.""I know what he did.""Then react. Say something. Anything.""What would you have me say?" She finally looks at me, exhausted in a way that goes deeper than tonight alone. "That I'm furious? I am. That I feel lik
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SELENE"Is that necessary?" Molly asks, her voice tight."It seemed wiser," Victor says simply.Andrew, predictably, can't resist. "Probably smart. Avoids the awkward possibility of wife number one and wife number two both dying of mutual loathing under the same roof.""Andrew," Charles says, though there's no real force behind it."I'm just saying what everyone's thinking."Vivian snorts into her water glass, and even Molly's mouth twitches despite herself, the first almost-smile she's allowed all evening.People start rising not long after that, the dinner finally, mercifully, releasing its grip on the room. Charles and Annabel leave first, Charles pausing just long enough to tell Victor, quietly, that he'll call him tomorrow. Andrew grabs his jacket off the back of his chair, already texting someone, muttering something about meeting friends before the night's completely wasted. Linda and Daniel leave together, her hand tucked into his arm, Susan following a few steps behind on
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SELENEDinner limps on after that, the way a wounded thing limps, not dead, just dragging itself forward because stopping entirely isn't an option.Molly eats stiff-backed and mechanical, cutting her food into small, precise pieces she barely lifts to her mouth, her eyes drifting between me and my mother like she's deciding which of us she hates more tonight. I don't give her the satisfaction of looking away first.Andrew and Vivian have apparently recovered enough to go back to bickering about something entirely unrelated, their voices low and easy under the general tension, the resilience of youth doing exactly what it does best. Charles and Annabel speak quietly to each other further down the table, heads bent close, his hand occasionally finding hers like he needs the anchor of her more than usual tonight.I keep my attention mostly on Victor."Eat," I tell him, nudging his plate half an inch closer."I am eating.""You've had four bites.""I've had six.""I counted four."He gi
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ARIANAMaxwell is still staring at Selene, something raw and wounded underneath the fury. "When?" he says, quieter now. "When did this even start?""Does it matter?" Selene asks."It matters to me."Maxwell's fist comes down hard on the table, plates and cutlery jumping with the force of it, a glass tipping dangerously before someone's hand shoots out to steady it."Then no," she says. "I'm not giving you that."He looks like he wants to say something else, something uglier, and Victor's expression shifts just enough, a warning, and Maxwell swallows it back down, sitting rigid in his chair with his hands curled into fists against the table.***Dinner eventually resumes, if you can call it that, plates moved around more than actually eaten. The conversation is thin and careful, everyone navigating the wreckage Victor just dropped into the middle of the table.It holds together, barely, until Andrew leans toward Vivian with a smirk he's clearly been holding in since the ring first caug
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ARIANABy the time I arrive, everyone's already seated, and nobody looks particularly happy about it.Charles sits near the head of the table, Annabel beside him, both of them quiet in the specific way people are quiet when they suspect something's coming and have decided not to ask. Vivian's across from them, arms crossed, clearly annoyed at being summoned somewhere without explanation on a Thursday night. Andrew's the only one who looks entertained, leaning back in his chair like he's waiting for a show to start.Molly sits stiff-backed near the center, Maxwell beside her, his jaw tight, his eyes flicking toward the door every few seconds. Linda, Daniel, and Susan are seated farther down, Linda unusually composed, as if she already knows something the rest of us don't."Does anyone actually know why we're here?" Vivian asks the table at large."Victor said family dinner," Charles says. "That's the entirety of what I was given.""That's never just what it means with him," Molly sa
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ARIANARelief barely has time to appear before she continues. "But you must know what they are."I stare at her. "Why?""Because ignorance will make you vulnerable." Her fingers tighten slightly around mine."You are going to be responsible for this family, Ariana. That means you cannot afford to know only the parts that make you comfortable."I swallow. "What exactly are you asking me to do?""Learn." Her voice is weak, but the word carries the same authority I've heard from her a hundred times."Learn the businesses. Learn the people. Learn who answers to whom. Learn where the money moves. Learn which doors should never be opened and which ones must never be closed."I remain silent."And learn the parts you don't want to see."My throat tightens. "I don't know if I can.""You can." The certainty in her voice catches me off guard. "Why are you so sure?" My eyes search hers, looking for some proof that she actually knows what she's talking about. That the certainty in her voice isn
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