That was the moment Stephanie made the mistake that undid her, the same mistake she had been making my whole life.

She looked at my silence, and she read it as surrender.

She had no way of knowing that it had stopped being surrender some weeks before, and had become something else entirely.

Chapter 6 — What She Didn’t Know

Because there were things my sister did not know about me, things twenty-two years of not looking at me directly had left her ignorant of.

She did not know what I had actually spent four years studying.