Chapter 181: You Told Her

Reese The whisk in my hand scraped harshly against the bowl, metal clanging metal in a way that grated even my own nerves. I should’ve kept my goddamn mouth shut. I should’ve just kept baking. Pretending. Smiling. Talking. But there are days where my patience, my restraint, my carefully constructed mask slips—and today was one of those days. Today, I was not interested in being the family shield or the family monster. Today, if someone wanted to start a fire, I was going to burn the whole house down with them inside it. Even if that person was my brother. Roman slammed his hand down on the counter, the impact almost making the utensils jump. “I said, what the hell did you just say?!” His voice vibrated through the kitchen walls. The cabinets rattled. The air thickened with the kind of tension that could split bone. All I had to do was say nothing. It would have been so easy. But easy isn’t something I am capable of. Especially not today. Today I was tired. Tired of swallowing glass and