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Chapter 182
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Ember's POVI finished the dishes.Every single one of them — not just the ones that had been in the sink when I arrived but the ones that came through from the dining room in the course of the evening, brought by Charlotte with the specific pointed cheerfulness of someone performing domesticity for an audience. I washed them and dried them and put them away and did all of it without going back into the dining room once.When the kitchen was done I went upstairs.I did not say goodnight.I sat on my bed in the dark and held my phone and looked at the screen and thought about what I wanted to do.The left side of my face had settled from heat to the dull persistent ache of something that had happened and was reminding you it had happened. I had looked in the bathroom mirror on the way up. The marks from Rita's fingers were visible — faint now, the first red fading to something that would either bruise or not depending on what the night decided to do with it.I had looked at myself in t
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Ember's POVRita lowered her hand.Nobody in the room said anything for a moment. The silence had the specific quality of something that had happened and could not be unhappened, sitting in the air waiting to be addressed.Charlotte was the first to speak."Mum," she said. Quiet. Not quite shock — Charlotte did not shock easily — but something adjacent to it."Go and wash up," Rita said to me. Like what had happened was already filed and closed. "Then come back and clear the table."I looked at her."The table," I said."We are eating," Rita said. "The three of us. You can eat after you have cleared."I held her gaze for a long moment.The left side of my face was still producing heat. The fingerprints were there — I could feel them in the specific way you felt impact after the fact, the outline of it. I did not touch my face again. I did not give her the satisfaction of watching me touch it."Fine," I said.I walked out of the living room and down the hall to the kitchen.The kitchen
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Ember's POVRita put her phone in her pocket.The call with my father was gone and what was left was the living room with its four occupants and the specific shifted air of a situation that had just reorganized itself around new information.Rita looked at Charlotte.Then at Ethan.Then at me.I watched it happen. The calculation running behind her eyes — the evidence she had, the version she had been building, the new configuration she was deciding how to fit it into. It took approximately four seconds.Then she made her decision."Charlotte," she said. Her voice had changed — the anger from before redirected, the sharp edges of it pointing somewhere new. "Come here."Charlotte crossed to her mother.Rita put her hand on Charlotte's arm. Not possessive — protective. The specific placement of a person drawing a line around what was theirs.She looked at Ethan."You must be tired from the journey," she said. "There is food in the kitchen if you are hungry."Ethan looked at Rita with th
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Ember's POVThe front door had not fully closed.I heard it — the movement of it, the creak that the hinge made, the specific sound of a door that had been pulled but not latched. And then, instead of the click of it closing properly, the sound of it opening again.Not Ethan coming back.Charlotte came in.She was in her coat, bag on her shoulder, the specific energy of someone who had been somewhere else and had arrived home without knowing what they were arriving into. She looked at Rita first — the automatic orientation of a daughter coming home, the mother check.Then she saw Ethan.He had stopped in the hallway. He had not gone as far as I thought — had gotten as far as the hallway and had paused there, whether because he had heard the door or because he had not been in as much of a hurry to leave as he had appeared.Charlotte looked at him.Something moved across her face.Not surprise — or not only surprise. Something that had more history in it. The look of someone seeing a pe
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Ember's POVI sat down on the arm of the couch.Not a decision — my legs made it and I went with it. I sat on the arm of the couch and held the cushion beside me and listened to Rita talk to my father.She was good at this.I had always known she was good at this — the specific skill of presenting a version of events that was technically adjacent to the truth while being constructed to produce a particular impression. She did not lie outright. She did not need to. She selected details and arranged them and delivered them in the order that built the picture she wanted built.The picture she was building now was of a daughter who had invited a boy to her father's house while he was away. Who had been conducting herself however she pleased at school all semester. Who was standing in the living room right now showing disrespect and attitude.My father's voice came through the phone.Not the words — Rita had the phone at her ear and his voice was at the distance where I could hear the tone
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Ember's POVRita's expression completed its journey.The company version — the managed, presentable version she had been maintaining since Ethan walked through the door — dropped in the specific way it dropped when something had overridden the management. What was underneath it was not company appropriate."You invited him here," she said.I turned to look at her. "I did not—""You invited a boy to this house," Rita said. "To your father's house. While he is away." She looked at Ethan, who was still standing in the center of the living room with the unruffled ease of someone watching a scene he had created and was not responsible for. "You had the audacity—""I did not invite him," I said. "I did not know he was coming. I did not give him this address." I kept my voice level. "He should not be here.""She is telling the truth," Ethan said pleasantly. "She did not invite me. I came on my own."Rita looked at him.Then at me.The look said she did not believe either of us."Your boyfrie
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