“You need to eat something, honey,” Margaret said.

“You haven’t had a bite since we left the farmhouse this afternoon.”

“I’m not hungry,” I said.

“You’ve got to keep your strength up,” Margaret said.

“Vanessa wants you to come apart in this empty house.

Don’t hand her that satisfaction.”

I touched my collarbone.

Vanessa wanted Ethan to celebrate his engagement surrounded by the broke Mitchell family, convinced his mother had heartlessly turned her back on him.