Eden snapped me out of my reverie when he dropped his fork hard on his plate. It would have been bad manners if we weren't just all animals round the table.
“Yeah, the news about your Mom and Kester went around for a while. It was pretty big and exciting till they mentioned she had a daughter who was beastless. A few of us had never even believed a beastless existed. So the excitement was still there. Heightened even.” He was rambling again. For some reason, whatever he thought of me mattered a very tiny fraction. No amount of positivity could beat the negative cloud hanging over my head all the time. Besides, his positivity was just too weak.
The thought of my Mother with Kester alone again made me lurch. But not enough to spit out the good food I was still eating. “Remind me never to l
