Lily could not believe that her son had called his sister a b***h. She had been immediately shocked, but was even more so when he began to defend his outburst. "Am I wrong?” he snapped. He turned to face Angela and said, “As a mistress, you are like a rat in the sewer. You live in darkness because your soul is as black as pitch. That you even mention love is laughable. Who would love you? Only a fool would, because you are incapable of expressing love.”
Hearing these words, Angela’s jaw nearly hit the floor. She had never heard her brother talk this way.
“We were never able to get along as children,” he continued, “and God knows that I tried to be your friend, but, even then, you had this darkness inside you. It was no wonder that you had no friends in school!”
Harlyn’s words had their
