Gemotions

"I don't want to talk to her." Chloe said it to her mother, her voice sharp and brittle. The inheritance lawyer had been insufferable, but the news was the worst part. Her father had concealed a child, a daughter, for decades.

Her mother sighed, her face etched with a familiar weariness. Chloe refused to see her mother’s perspective. She wanted to smash something, to break the world into pieces. She stood abruptly, leaving the room, the guilt of her anger a knot that she refused to acknowledge.