Chapter 29 Lethal Words

• My mother's voice is pleading, not to mention her gaze, mother Consuelo looks at her as if she were a snake she wants to finish with, and Mort.... well he is looking at me annoyed because he clearly told me to stay upstairs; now I totally regret it, it would have been easier for him to throw my mother out like nothing, but now I am here, with everyone's eyes on me.... it's too late to go back to my room, I guess.
• I won't always be able to run from trouble though, Mort and Mama Consuelo are not for me to deal with my problems, that's my business, so no more hiding and running away, at least this time.
• Given what Mort and I just talked about up there a moment ago, it's not hard to guess why my dear mother is looking at me like a lamb on its way to the slaughter.