Exposing My Stepmother
Despite all my precautions and calculations, I still underestimated how vicious she was.
That weekend, early in the morning, Mary sent me back to my second-floor bedroom to do homework, while she pushed the sleeping Ethan out onto the second-floor balcony to get some sun.
I lifted my head from my workbook. The unease in my chest grew.
Sure enough, at the exact moment my dad pushed open the front door, a loud crash echoed from the stairwell, followed by Mary’s piercing scream.
“Ah! Lucy! How could you push Ethan?!”
My dad’s steps stopped abruptly. As he looked up, he saw me standing in the second-floor hallway, while Ethan, with his wheelchair, lay overturned at the bottom of the stairs on th