Wow, we’ve reached Part Two of Soul Cages. If you’re just joining us now, please be aware that the novel is PG-13 in tone. Also, the novel is broken into Parts instead of regular Chapters, so the length of the numbered sections will vary significantly from week to week.
Soul Cages
L. M. May
Copyright © 2011 by L. M. May
Published by Osuna Publishing
This story is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, dialogue, and locales are either drawn from the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, and locales is entirely coincidental.
Part Two. Broken Masks
24
After Mom banished Henry to his bedroom with earplugs, she hustled me into the home office and began yelling even before the door closed.
“How could you lie to me like that! HOW COULD YOU? All this time I thought you were at least truthful, and now I find out you were a liar and a slut.” Mom picked up a glass paperweight, aimed at me, but then flung it to shatter against the wall parallel to us. “You have shamed me, you have shamed your father with your dirty ways.”
“I’m sorry.”
Mom held up a hand, as if to hold me back. “No. I don’t want to hear a word from your lying mouth.” She scrunched up her shoulders in a helpless shrug as she began to cry. “And here I thought you’d be a good girlfriend for Matthew. Now I’ll be barely able to look Gena in the face.”
“It’s none of her business!”
“She’s my friend. Of course it’s her business, she cares about me.” Mom cried even harder.
“Only an asshole would tell his wife about this!”
“Shut up!” Mom threw a computer magazine at my head. I ducked so that it hit the wall and fluttered to the floor. I sidled toward the nearest office door.
“Get out!” Mom threw a pencil holder at me, but her aim was lousy due to her tears. It cracked high against the door, spilling pencils onto my head and the carpet. “You can stay in your room until I get back with your father.”
************** End of Part Two. 24. *****************
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