When he let go of her hand and moved away, Violet's stomach lurched rather violently. That was more than enough to tell her this was about to get a thousand times worse. She stared at him, waiting for him to speak again. That broken look on his face tore her up, she didn't want to see him like that, but a part of her thought maybe he deserved it, after everything she'd found out. And there was still more to come.
She sat there listening to his story and she couldn't even bring herself to believe what he was saying, except the part about the kids at his school, she'd just found that out not long before she ended up here. "Hayden's the death of my dad, surprise, sur-fucking-prise." she rolled her eyes. She hated that bitch and her dad wasn't all that high on her list of favorite people either.
That last comment, "I'm the reason your mother is dead.", that was the part that threw her off. As bad as everything else that he had said was, that was what she got stuck on. At first, it didn't make sense. What the hell was he talking about? How did he have anything to do with her mother dying while she was in childbirth? And then it hit her. Her face twisted up and she barely managed to whisper, "What the hell are you saying, Tate?"