That Family
Author: Mark Harrison
last update2025-09-30 23:23:14
NESSE’S POV

I had hoped that my mum would return to her home and let me have a moment of quiet to myself, but I was wrong. She followed me all the way from the station back to my house.

“You are fortunate,” she said as we walked into my living room.

“There is nothing fortunate about being arrested and kept there for hours like a rodent,” I retorted.

I expected a response, as usual, but she delayed in dishing out one, and when I checked to see why she wasn’t saying anything, I saw that she was looking at the big portrait of Iron and I in the living room. It was the one and only picture we had taken after we both signed the marriage contract.

Her face was scrunched up with disgust.

“What is this still doing here?” She asked me without taking her eyes from the portrait.

If eyes could rip things off, hers would have done that to the portrait by now, but then again, I was already used to her condescending attitude when it came to Iron, so I wasn’t surprised. Besides, there was something els
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