For a second, time slowed. “I know that makes me sound like a horrible mother,” Mom kept talking, completely unaware I was standing right outside the door. “But it is the truth, darling. Look at what she has become. She went to New York, only to come back empty-handed. No groundbreaking job, no boyfriend or husband, no child, no achievement, just … absolute nothing. All she has done is wander across the world, spend our money, and the trust we kept aside for both of them. She has spent it all, doing nothing but drinking away her life, buying expensive shoes and getting fat! How is that fair? How did we end up with her when we could have had –” She stopped talking abruptly, opened the door, and gasped when she saw me. I exhaled slowly, flooded by an onslaught of emotions. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t even know how to feel. My ears were ringing, and my lungs felt filled with sand. I couldn’t breathe. The air thickened, and my entire body trembled. “D … Dallas, honey, you we
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