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CHAPTER 11

DARLENE

Dinner on the rosewood dining table was frosty, and it wasn't just because we'd been holding back on the cooker for the electricity bill.

It had more to do with Stella's attitude, the way she was stabbing at the cold chicken sandwich with the bread knife would have sent a medieval knight running for the hills.

"I've just about had it with you Ella, what is with the attitude today?" Mum barked, slapping her knotted hands down on the table so hard Dad's sandwich rattled in his white ceramic plate.

"Oh I dunno, maybe it's the fact that my parents think it's okay to sell off their fucking daughter to some drug lord for a fat check!"

"Language!" I hissed reflexively, just as a huge wallop of smoke left Mum's ears as she pushed back in her seat.

"Now now, no one's selling anyone off pumpkin, Darlene's doing what's best for the family-" Dad's easy voice soothed before Stella cut him off again as I glanced between the two of them, the sandwich frozen half way to my mouth.

Shit, this i
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