"Now, you will accept the…" but her son's words finally sunk into her mind, "What did you say?" she seemed genuinely flummoxed, as she should be; her son, which she'd easily manipulated all his life, had suddenly become blasé to her concerns.
"I said," Casmir repeated, looking her in the eye, "Nobody asked you to maintain a perfect image for our family. None of these people you call your society friends have perfect families, which is why they end up producing unbalanced children, filling their minds with the attitude of entitlement instead of teaching them real emotions…"
"Shut up!" she whispered fiercely, her eyes looking around to ascertain nobody had heard her son's diatribe. "Did your father put you up to this?" she asked sceptically, her eyes narrowing on him.
"Thanks to you, I have alienated the man for years."
