The silence that followed was so heavy that you could hear the ice melting in the glasses. Gillian looked at her son with a expression of pure horror as the truth finally sank in.
“Is that true, Justin?” she whispered while her eyes filled with tears of shame. “Mom, it is complicated and he is just trying to ruin me,” Justin lied one last time.
“It is not complicated at all because the bank records and the audit prove everything,” Maxwell said. Mason looked up from his plate and asked if his father had stolen the house from them.
The boy question was so simple and honest that it broke the last of Justin defense. “Daddy made us lose our home because he was a bad man?” Mason asked again.
Justin could not look his son in the eye and he backed away from the table in silence. “I defended you to everyone in this family!” Gillian screamed as she realized her son had used her.
Cassidy stood up and took her sons hands while the rest of the room watched in shock. “We are going home now because we do not need to hear any more lies,” she said to the room.