Karen covered her beating heart with a short laugh. “Mum, what are you saying? You must’ve heard wrong. I didn’t say that. I said, ‘now that Thalassa is out of the way’-“”
“That is not any better!” Her mother cut her off sharply. “Why would you even say something like that? And don’t you try to treat me like an i***t because I know what I heard. You said, ‘now that we’ve managed to get Thalassa out of the way.’ Who’s ‘we,’ Karen? Who were you talking to on the phone?”
“It was just a friend,” Karen said, clutching her phone tightly in her hand as she feared her mother would snatch it away.
“It always struck me as so strange what they were accusing Thalassa of. In all the years she came to our house, she never stole a single thing from us. I still find it hard to believe that she could do
