For a few seconds, nobody moved.
Daniel looked at me as though I had insulted his entire family. His mother stood there with her hand halfway to her purse, wearing her usual expression of wounded innocence.
“You can’t be serious,” he said.
“I am,” I replied. “Your mother has a pension, owns her condo, and clearly enjoys expensive things-
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