Ex-Husband's Regret
Aunt Harper starts, but Ivy cuts through her so sharply it almost feels physical.
“I don’t want any excuses… I don’t want to be placated,” she growls, her voice tinged with both anger and fear. “I want to know where my daughter is and I want to know what the fuck happened when she was perfectly fine the last time I spoke to her this afternoon.”
“There was an incident at the party,” Dad says.
“An incident?” she repeats, her eyes cutting to me. “Is that her blood?”
I open my mouth to answer, but nothing comes out, so I close it again. I don’t even need to say anything. The look in her eyes—the way they fill with tears, the way something inside her breaks—tells me she already knows.