The dining room of Vance Manor was a mausoleum of old money and older judgments, where crystal chandeliers cast harsh light over meals that cost more than most people earned in a week yet tasted like ash in my mouth. Sunday dinner was mandatory—a weekly performance review I was destined to fail no matter how I prepared, no matter what I accomplished in the world beyond these walls.“Pass the salt, Elena,” my mother Beatrice said without lifting her eyes from her plate of coq au vin. Her voice carried that particular tone of polite condescension she’d perfected over decades of social climbing. “And please try to be careful. We all know how clumsy you get when you’re flustered. God knows you couldn’t even handle the simple pressure of law school without completely falling apart.”
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