The second sl:ap hit hard enough that my wedding ring sliced the inside of my cheek. The third came before I could even taste the bl:ood.
All because I bought the wrong coffee.
Daniel towered over me in our marble kitchen, breathing heavily like a man celebrating victory. His mother, Evelyn, sat at the island in her silk robe, calmly stirring tea she hadn’t bothered to make herself.
“Look at her,” Evelyn murmured. “Still staring like some injured little creature.”
Daniel gripped my chin. “Answer me when I’m talking to you.”
I met his eyes. Calm. Maybe too calm.
“It was coffee,” I said quietly.
His expression hardened. “It was disrespect.”
Then the fourth slap came.
The crack echoed through the house. Rain hammered the towering windows while the chandelier sparkled overhead, pretending ugliness could never exist beneath its light.
Evelyn smiled into her teacup. “A wife has to be corrected early, Daniel. Your father knew that.”
Daniel leaned close enough for me to smell whiskey on his breath. “Tomorrow morning, I want breakfast waiting. A real breakfast. No attitude. No icy looks. And stop acting like you’re above this family.”
Above this family.
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