I stared at her, my hands hanging heavy at my sides.

“She was showing him a chess puzzle.”

“She was shoving her expensive high-and-mighty junk in my son’s face to make him feel stupid!” Tessa yelled, her cheeks going bright red under her makeup.

“She sat right there and taunted him with it because she thinks she’s better than everybody!”

“I was standing three feet away in the doorway, Tessa,” I said.

“She didn’t say one unkind word to him.”