CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR – RIFTS IN THE FAMILY

The breaking point arrived without preamble a few weeks later. Kayla was overseeing final preparations for the hotly anticipated Wainwright Enterprises launch event when her cellphone began ringing insistently. "Excuse me one moment," she murmured to the decorators awaiting her input, stepping aside to check the caller ID. Ava. Her younger sister's face shone up from the screen. Kayla's brow furrowed slightly as she accepted the call. "Hey sis, what's up?" "Don't you 'hey sis' me!" Ava's voice lashed out with uncharacteristic venom. "I can't believe after all these years, this is how I find out the truth!" Blindsided by the pure rage crackling through her normally sweet-tempered sister, Kayla could only blink in stunned bewilderment. "Ava...I have no idea what you're talking abo–" "About how you've resented me our whole lives!" Ava cut her off with caustic fury. "How you've been seething with jealousy over the attention mom and dad gave me as the baby! All the 'golden child' treat