From Rejected to Rafael's
I said it the way I'd practiced it in my head, direct, no apology, no flinching.
He didn't react the way people usually did. No sharp intake of breath. No quick reshaping of his expression into something pitying. He just looked at me, steady and unreadable.
"I know about your mother," he said.
The room went very quiet.
"I know about Connor. I know about last night, the party, the lodge, the rejection." A pause sat in the room and made itself comfortable. "I know about the email you never received."
I kept my hands flat against the leather of the chair. Kept my face neutral. Said nothing, because there was nothing to say to that.