Blurb：
When a single message from @TeaganHastings shatters Judith Parrish's carefully curated world, she discovers her son Kevin Ballard has been living a double life. The European tour meant to celebrate his surgical residency becomes a battleground of manipulation and betrayal. As Judith confronts Kevin's secret girlfriend Teagan Hastings, she unravels a web of lies that questions every sacrifice she ever made. This psychological drama explores toxic family dynamics, emotional incest, and the price of maternal devotion. Perfect for readers who enjoyed complex character studies like "Mommie Dearest" and "Sharp Objects." Will Judith reclaim her identity beyond being Kevin's mother, or will Teagan's venomous influence destroy their family forever?Content：
§01The first message arrived like a whisper of ice in the London heat.
It slid into Judith Parrish’s private Aura account, a space she curated with the quiet precision of a museum archivist.
A single, stark line from a user named @TeaganHastings.
“Who are you and why are you posting pictures of my boyfriend?”
Judith frowned, her thumb hovering over the glossy image she’d uploaded an hour ago.
It was a photo of her and her son, Kevin, standing before the Tower of London.
Her arm was looped comfortably through his, a casual gesture she’d made a thousand times.
Kevin’s smile was a little tight, she’d noticed, but she had chalked it up to fatigue.
This seven-country European tour was the grand prize, her reward to him for matching into a highly competitive surgical residency program.
It was the culmination of a life architected entirely around his ascent.
Boyfriend? The word felt alien.
Kevin hadn’t mentioned a girlfriend.
Not in the weeks leading up to the trip, not during their long flight, not once across Paris, Rome, or Berlin.
Judith typed back a polite, measured response.
“I believe there’s been a misunderstanding. This is my son, Kevin Ballard.”
The reply was instantaneous, sharp and venomous.
“I know who he is. The question is, who are YOU?”
“And what kind of mother clings to her adult son like that? Don’t you have a husband to bother? Oh, wait. I heard he left you. Cold palace, huh? Trying to find your worth through your son? Do you even know what boundaries are?!”
Each word was a perfectly aimed dart.
Judith’s breath caught.
The polite fiction of a misunderstanding evaporated, leaving behind the cold, hard certainty of a deliberate attack.
She pushed herself up from the plush sofa in their suite at The Mayfair Hotel.
The door to Kevin’s adjoining room was slightly ajar.
She found him hunched over his phone, his face illuminated by the screen, whispering.
“Kevin?” she asked, her voice steady despite the tremor in her chest.
He jumped, shoving his phone into his pocket.
“Mom. I... I was just on a call.”
“With Teagan?”
His face paled.
“You know about her?”
“She just messaged me,” Judith said, her voice flat. She held out her phone. “She seems to believe I’m some sort of predator. Her words.”
Kevin wouldn’t meet her eyes. He mumbled, his gaze fixed on the plush carpet.
“I’ve been meaning to tell you. You just… you make it difficult.”
“Difficult?”
“You’re always so involved. This trip… it’s a lot,” he stammered. “It makes me look like a… like a mama’s boy.”
The phrase, coming from his own lips, landed like a physical blow.
“And maybe you shouldn’t post so many pictures of us. Especially the ones where you’re… you know. Touching me.”
Judith stared at the young man before her, the son she had raised, celebrated, and now, apparently, suffocated.
“I see,” she said, her voice dangerously quiet. “So this grand tour, my gift to you, is an embarrassment?”
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