Blood and Betrayal
I whispered, the word feeling like a jagged piece of glass in my throat.
She flinched. It was a small movement, but it spoke volumes. She slowly turned her head, and for the first time in my life, I saw fear in her eyes when she looked at me. It wasn’t the fear of a mother for her child; it was the fear of a woman looking at the person who had set her world on fire.
“I saw it, Lisa.” Her voice was a flat, dead thing. No anger, no screaming—just a terrifyingly calm acknowledgment of the end of her life as she knew it.