All the things I’d worked so hard for, sacrificed for, were now in peril. Daphne’s future. The Eatery. I popped the lemon drop into my mouth, tucking it against my cheek, willing it to work. Tonight, I was so tired of trying to hold our family together. There was only one person I wanted to see. I needed desperately to hear her voice again, feel her ample arms press me close to her heart. I needed advice and motherly understanding. I needed her to fix everything like she’d done so many times before. I closed my eyes, overwhelmed with grief and longing. “Mom,”
listen, we don't even know what kind of relationship you had with your mom because all we have heard up till now is Gawd damn RORY
