“Jocelyn?” Gabriel said her name evenly. The sound of his voice, however, still boomed in the tense air.
Jocelyn snapped her eyes away from the television and blinked a couple of times before she could clearly see Gabriel’s face in front of her.
“Jocelyn?” he called again, as though he wasn’t certain she was all there.
She looked at the large screen mounted on the wall again, but the news had been muted, she realized. And it seemed the newscaster had moved on to another story. Jocelyn’s face was no longer staring back at her.
Unfortunately, that meant there was a heavy silence in the room with every eye trained on her, including her sisters’.
“It’s not what it looks like,” Jocelyn blurted out suddenly, then she stopped and shook her head. She had no idea why those words had fallen fr
