Wanting a home

My heart skipped and my eyes instantly snapped to Tiana. She didn’t act like she cared though because she was eating her food casually. It went so silent in the table, I could feel my heart beating so loudly inside my chest.

“Why y’all looking at me?” she looked up and smirked when she met my angry gaze.

“What? Have you become so obsessed with money that you no longer have a conscience?”

“Do you know that we never told him who you were married to so he wouldn’t create a fuss and ruin things. But even after so many months, have you called him once to apologize or say sorry?” she yelled.

“Tiana,” my mother banged her hands against the table loudly. And like she realized what she had done, she flinched and went quiet. I wanted to tear her apart, not because what she said was wrong but because she was so stupid to have brought that up in front of Jordan. I only just told her that we were in a good place, why was she trying to ruin it? No one said a thing again, they all remained quiet and