Mother, I’m staying here, please don’t make me go with them.”
He saw her face go white and then a flush of red crept onto its surface and she glared at the man sitting beside him. Her lips moved but he heard no sound and she turned and walked out of the study.
An hour later, he heard the gravel sounds of her car as it coughed out of the long circular driveway.
∞
Daniel listened for her every day and night until he left for medical school at the age of eighteen.