Bianka laughed—a hollow, brittle sound. “Because you’re not my mom. You’re just the woman who married Dad and started acting like the warden.”
Lena nodded slowly. “Fair. But I confiscate this stuff because I found my own mother dead of an overdose when I was sixteen. It was a different drug, but the same stupid, shiny little object in her hand.” She held up the vape. “So when I see you with this, I don’t see a rebellious teen. I see a body on a bathroom floor.”
Bianka stared at the pen. Then at Lena’s face—the hard lines, the tired eyes, the clenched jaw that was trying very hard not to cry. PervMom.21.05.16.Bianka.Blue.Confiscate.This.XX...
Then she stood, walked to the bathroom at the end of the hall, and dropped it into the toilet. She flushed.
Slowly, Bianka picked up the vape. She held it for a long moment. Bianka laughed—a hollow, brittle sound
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“Why do you do it?” Lena asked, turning the vape over in her fingers. “The sneaking. The attitude. The constant… war.” “Fair
“Sit down,” Lena said, not as an order, but as a plea.