The next day
"It's done," Angelo said as he stood at the entrance of his stepmother's hospital room. She turned her head to look at him, but a movement that was simple for an everyday woman to do seemed difficult for her.
"What?" she asked him, her voice frail and her body weakened from the gunshot wound to her shoulder.
"My mother has been arrested. You were always right about her."
"She can't be that bad," Angelo's stepmother said, making excuses for his biological mother, and that in itself irritated him so much that he could no longer control his anger, and he slammed his hand against the door.
"She tried to stab me last night! Angelo yelled out, sending hot blood coursing through his entire body. The stepmother stared at home with pained eyes, and even Angelo could see the tears welling up in the older woman's eyes.