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Camille:

The food in my mouth went cold instantly. I turned to look at Daniel and at the same time he turned to look at me. The same expression was on our faces - shock.

It wasn’t exactly what she had said. It made sense for my mom to want to ‘pay a visit’ to Reggie after what he had put me through.

It was the way she said it.

The tone. The stone cold expression on her face, the calculated words and pauses, the anger, like she had a mission to carry out, and it wasn’t going to be pretty.

She went back to eating almost instantly, as if she hadn’t said anything out of the ordinary.

“He’s in the hospital. In intensive care the last time checked,” I managed to say.

She smiled. “Oh. I suppose he really gets all the care he needs.”

“What do you mean when you say ‘pay him a visit’?” Daniel asked the question that been on my mind.

My mom chuckled with her mouth full.

“You know exactly what I mean,” she said, playfully pointing the fork toward Daniel.

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