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Michael froze, grocery bags in hand.
I didn’t speak. I raised a bill. “You lied to me.”
“I didn’t know how to tell you that I was helping my mother…”
“I was trying to keep the roof from collapsing on us all.”
“By what? Starving your kids and making me beg for yogurt?!”
Diana cleared her throat. “Don’t yell at him in my house.”
Footsteps echoed behind us.
Mimi stepped into view.