My mother's expression changed.The warmth didn't leave all at once, it curdled, slowly, the smile holding its shape while everything behind it shifted into something harder and colder and considerably more honest."Why are you so stubborn?" Her voice came out tight. "We took you in. We raised you. We gave you everything and last night you said those words and now you're standing here refusing to apologize?" She shook her head, her eyes moving over my face with something that wasn't worry anymore. "After everything we've done for you."Just as my lips parted to speak, Dorothy appeared in the kitchen doorway.She looked between me and my mother and then her face settled into that expression of hers, soft and pained and perfectly constructed, and she crossed to my mother and put a gentle hand on her arm. "Mama, don't be too hard on her." Her voice was warm and careful as usual. "Maeve truly loved Alexander. Seeing his ring on my finger must be breaking her heart right now, she already c
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