Tantrum

Eliza wanted to stamp her feet like she was having a temper tantrum, and she had never even done that when she was a child.

But what Victoria had told her about her mother and father made her irrationally angry. She was filled with rage, and she had nowhere to place it. She had not said a thing to Victoria about what she felt because she was too shellshocked to.

And she could not say anything to her mother because what was she going to say? She did not want to know what she knew about her mother and father, but she knew and the past was the past.

But she had hid so much of herself from her mother and Rafe’s family for what?! What happened between two people was private, but when children were involved…Jeanne, now a stillborn sister. It was too much.

She wrapped her arms about herself and paced the apartment. Would she tell Jeanne? Would she tell Rafe?

Right then, she looked at her desktop. Oscar’s name was on the screen, she knew he was in China. Memories of Shanghai came back to her. He was there with Sally…Eliza had particular feelings about Sally, but it was not her business to tell her friend what she felt about the woman he loved.

She currently had her own issues that she did not know how to deal with.

Still enraged, she curled up in a ball on her mattress.

“Eliza?”

She heard Victoria’s voice through the door, and she bawled like a baby but it was not a tantrum.

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