I pressed my hand to my stinging cheek, my mind gone utterly blank. Mrs. Foster's eyes were red with fury, every trace of her noble poise shattered.
"This is how you repay the Foster family for raising you? By sabotaging my daughter's relationship?"
Under the harsh, glaring living room lights, I saw the other faces, all of them were with disappointment, anger and judgment. My mother stood awkwardly to the side, with her expression unreadable. "Eleanor, didn't you promise me? You said you wouldn't covet what doesn't belong to you."
My father was there too, staring at me with a stern, closed-off face.
"I didn't!" My lips trembled. I gathered up every shard of my crushed pride and forced the words out, one by one. "I'm a victim in this too..."
Mr. Foster cut me off, with his face pale w
