Anna.
The table is enveloped in silence, every pair of eyes fixed on me in stunned disbelief, except for my mother. Pops stands, his body trembling with barely contained fury, and I can sense the storm brewing within him. He erupts, his voice booming like thunder, “What! The f**k! Are you thinking do you know what your putting at risk Petrova is already struggling”
A laugh escapes me, not out of amusement but disbelief, as I shake my head. “Don’t you see? This is exactly why he wanted this dinner—to start s**t I knew it the moment Ma called”
Danny leans back, a smug grin plastered across his face, and my irritation spikes “It’s not my fault you’re f*****g both brothers.”
The tension escalates as my mother’s hand crashes down onto the table, the sound startling my sister into a jump. S
