It started on a Friday night, when my girlfriend casually mentioned that her ex—a ghost from a past she rarely spoke of—had just moved to Chicago and reached out to her. She sat next to me on the sofa, her tone a little too light, perfectly calibrated for casualness. “He doesn’t know anyone in the city,” she said. “I’m just going to help him look at some apartments this weekend. Don’t overthink it.” I looked up from my laptop. “Do you really want to go?” “I kind of do,” she admitted, offering a reassuring smile. “Don’t worry, nothing’s going to happen. I promise I’ll be home by seven.” I stayed quiet for a moment, then nodded. But that Saturday, she didn’t walk through the front door until eleven o’clock at night. For the entirety of the day, my calls went straight to voicemail, my texts left on read. When she finally arrived, reading the coldness on my face, she immediately reached for my hands, her voice dripping with apologies. “I’m so sorry, babe. The apartment viewings took forever, and my phone was on silent. Please don’t be mad.” Over the next few weeks, she was in contact with him every single day. At first, she would tentatively bring him up, watching my expressions to gauge my reaction. Later, she simply stopped mentioning him altogether, though her screen time told a different story. I tried talking to her about it. “Your constant need to see him doesn’t sit right with me.” Every time, she deflected with a carousel of excuses, ending in explosive arguments and slammed doors. “I’m just doing a friend a favor! You’re being way too sensitive.” Eventually, I stopped arguing. I looked at her, swallowed the words I wanted to say, and quietly made a decision in the deepest corner of my mind. She was just my girlfriend, not my wife. And at this trajectory, the odds were she was going to end up being someone else’s wife. So, with quiet precision, I began erasing her silhouette from the blueprint of my future. I grew distant. I stopped initiating conversations. I stopped asking where she was going. It took over a month, but she finally sensed the shift in the tectonic plates beneath us, and the panic began to set in. 1 “Are you just going to wear that face all day?” It was nine in the morning on a Sunday. Olivia was by the entryway, slipping on her sneakers and shooting me a frustrated look over her shoulder. “What is going on with you lately? Why are you being so cold to me?” I leaned against the hallway console, holding a half-empty glass of room-temperature water, my gaze steady. “I’m not wearing any face. I just asked what your plans are today.” “I told you yesterday,” she sighed, exasperated. “Ethan just moved into that studio in Lincoln Park. The place doesn’t even have proper blinds, and the cabinet hinges are falling apart.” She tied her laces and stood up, brushing her bangs out of her eyes. “He’s a single guy; he doesn’t know the first thing about fixing up a place. I’m just going over to take some measurements and help him organize the kitchen.” “Last Friday, you spent the entire day helping him apartment hunt. From two in the afternoon until eleven at night.” I set my glass down on the wood surface. The faint clink sounded unnaturally loud in the quiet apartment. “You promised me you’d be home by seven. Instead, you vanished for four hours. No calls, no texts.” Olivia’s brow furrowed instantly, a flash of defensive irritation bleeding into her voice. “My phone died! And I explained all of this to you. He’s new to the city, the landlord was an absolute nightmare, and we spent over two hours just haggling over the lease terms.” “Nathan, can you please stop bringing up ancient history? I apologized to you the second I got home that night. Why are you still holding onto this?” “I’m not bringing up ancient history,” I said softly. “I’m reminding you of a boundary you agreed to.” “Boundary, boundary—we are adults, Nathan. Ethan and I have known each other since high school. If something was going to happen between us, we would have gotten back together years ago, and you wouldn’t even be in the picture.” She dug into her leather tote, pulled out a tube of lipstick, and pressed her lips together in the entryway mirror. “He’s completely alone in Chicago. No family, no friends. What is so wrong with me stepping up to help out an old friend?” “If you’re just helping an old friend, do you need to be on FaceTime with him from morning until night?” My voice lacked any inflection. I was merely reciting the data I had observed over the past week. “During our movie night on Thursday, his name popped up on your screen three times. Yesterday at lunch, you took your phone out to the balcony and talked to him for forty minutes.” “Are you interrogating me now, or just monitoring my every move?” Olivia snapped the lipstick shut, tossing it back into her bag, and pivoted to glare at me. “He just started a new job. He has a million questions about HR forms, benefits, getting settled. If I really wanted to hide something from you, I’d just delete the texts! Why would I answer his calls right in front of you?” “Because you’ve convinced yourself you’re doing something noble,” I replied evenly. “So, in your mind, my discomfort is my own problem, isn’t it?” “Well, isn’t it? There is literally nothing going on, and you’re bending over backwards to assume the worst. You’re just making yourself miserable for no reason.” She let out a long breath, stepping forward to loop her arm through mine, her tone softening into something resembling pity. “Come on, stop sulking. I know you’re feeling a little insecure, but I swear, once I get his blinds up and the boxes broken down, I’ll be back by five. I’ll make that homemade lasagna you love. Deal?” I looked down at her hand resting on my forearm. I didn’t pull away, but I didn’t lean in, either. “You’ll be back by five?” “Five o’clock on the dot. I swear.” She held up a hand as if taking an oath, forcing a placating smile before letting go of me and opening the front door. The moment the lock clicked shut, the apartment fell back into a hollow silence. I walked back to the living room and stared at the coffee table. Resting on top of it was a stack of brochures for wedding venues we were supposed to look through this afternoon. At four-thirty, the sky outside began to bruise with the heavy gray of an impending Midwest storm. At five o’clock, the entryway remained dead silent. At five-thirty, my phone screen lit up with an audio message from Olivia. I pressed play. Through the tinny speaker, I could hear the wind rushing, overlaid with the faint, teasing voice of a man in the background. Olivia’s voice came through, rushed and breathless. “Nathan, Ethan insisted on treating me to dinner as a thank-you. I couldn’t say no without being rude. I’ll head back right after we eat! Just order some Postmates for yourself, okay?” I tapped the text field. My thumb hovered over the keyboard for a few seconds before I typed a single word. Okay. At eight o’clock, the delivery guy rang the bell. He handed me a high-end takeout bag from a luxury downtown steakhouse. The receipt stapled to the bag had a note scribbled on it: Ethan insisted you try the bone-in ribeye. It’s amazing. Don’t be mad! I stared at the heavy foil containers leaking expensive juices. I didn’t even open them. I walked to the kitchen and dropped the entire bag straight into the trash can. At ten-forty, the deadbolt turned. Olivia walked in holding two iced matcha lattes. Her face was flushed, glowing with the chill of the night wind, and the lingering scent of her floral perfume was now distinctly laced with the sharp, unmistakable smell of mint and tobacco. “Nathan, look! I got you your favorite drink from that spot you love!” she chirped, kicking off her boots and hurrying over. She held the cup out to me, acting as casually as if she had just returned from a quick walk around the block. I remained slouched against the sofa, watching a muted documentary on the television. I didn’t reach for the cup. “Since when does Ethan smoke?” I asked. Olivia froze. She instinctively brought her sleeve up to her nose, catching the scent, and gave an awkward, sheepish laugh. “Oh. He had a cigarette outside the restaurant. The wind was kind of blowing in my direction. Look, you’re being paranoid again. Like I said, it was just a quick dinner, and then he put me in an Uber.” “I threw the steak away,” I said, keeping my eyes on the screen. The smile evaporated from her face, replaced immediately by a familiar, defensive scowl. “You threw it away? He stood in line for twenty minutes to get that order put in! He was trying to be nice, trying to apologize for taking up my time today. Why do you have to be so ungrateful?” “I don’t know him. And I don’t need his apologies.” I stood up, meeting her gaze. There was no anger in my eyes anymore. Just a vast, cold wasteland. “You promised me you’d be home by five, Olivia.” “Plans change, Nathan! The guy was trying to show his appreciation; I couldn’t just throw it in his face and storm off! You have to have some basic social grace!” Her voice rose, her chest heaving indignantly. “I am out all day, exhausted, and I come home to you giving me the cold shoulder. You never used to be this petty. When did you become so unreasonable?” “Am I the unreasonable one?” “Who else? Did I cheat on you? Did I sleep with him? I have absolutely nothing to hide. What exactly are you accusing me of?” I looked at her face, contorted with self-righteous indignation, and somewhere deep inside my chest, a string that had been pulled taut for weeks finally snapped. It didn’t make a sound. I didn’t argue back. I didn’t pull out the receipts of her lies or demand she see my side, as I had a dozen times before. I simply nodded, my voice barely above a whisper. “If you truly believe you’ve done nothing wrong, then you should go take a shower and get some sleep.” Olivia stood rooted to the hardwood floor, utterly derailed by my reaction. She chewed her lip, suddenly unsure of her footing. “Nathan… don’t be like this. I was just helping him out. Stop acting so passive-aggressive.” “I’m not being passive-aggressive. Go shower. The water’s hot.” 2 The next morning, the smell of sizzling butter drifted from the kitchen. It was rare for Olivia to wake up before me. She was wearing the apron I bought her for our anniversary, bustling around pulling perfectly toasted bread and hot coffee onto the breakfast nook. When she saw me walk out of the bedroom, a bright, eager smile stretched across her face. “You’re up! Come eat. I made you those sunny-side-up eggs you love. Perfectly crispy on the edges.” I walked over, pulled out a chair, and picked up my mug of black coffee. In the past, whenever we fought, this was her move. She would offer a tiny olive branch of domesticity, and I would immediately cave, eager to sweep the conflict under the rug. She was used to my endless reservoir of forgiveness. She knew exactly where my boundaries crumbled. “Nathan, I’m sorry about my tone last night. I shouldn’t have yelled,” she said, sitting across from me and resting her chin in her hands, her eyes wide and earnest. “I thought about it, and you’re right. I shouldn’t have broken our timeline. I shouldn’t have left you waiting. But you have to believe me. Ethan and I—it’s just history. Now, we are strictly platonic.” “I know.” I took a sip of the dark coffee. My expression didn’t shift a millimeter. Olivia studied my face intensely, searching for the familiar signs of lingering hurt or the soft underbelly of a grudge. She found nothing. I was as placid as if I were listening to a roommate list off the monthly utility bills. Suddenly, her phone buzzed against the wood table. Ethan’s name flashed across the screen. Olivia immediately slapped her hand over the phone, her eyes darting nervously to mine. “Aren’t you going to answer that?” I asked, cutting into my eggs. “It’s nothing urgent,” she said, though her voice wavered. She quickly flipped the phone face down, trying to bury her fleeting panic. “Probably just another question about transferring his health insurance. I’ll text him after breakfast.” “You should answer it,” I said, dabbing my mouth with a napkin and standing up. “In case it’s an emergency.” I turned toward the bedroom to get dressed for work. “Nathan, wait—are you free tonight?” she called out, jumping up and catching the hem of my shirt. “Ethan said he wants to formally thank both of us. He wants to take us out to dinner tonight. He specifically asked for you to come, to clear the air so there are no misunderstandings.” I stopped and looked back at her. “He asked for me to come?” “Yes! See? If he had some kind of hidden agenda, he wouldn’t be inviting you out. We can all go, get everything out in the open, and you won’t have to drive yourself crazy with paranoia anymore.” Her eyes were shining with hope, as if this dinner reservation was the magic bullet that would cure the rot at the core of our relationship. I looked at her naive, desperate expression, and almost found it funny. “I’m not going.” “Why not? Nathan, he’s making a real effort here. If you won’t even meet him halfway, aren’t you being a little close-minded?” “Olivia, he’s your ex-boyfriend. He’s not my friend.” I gently peeled her fingers off my shirt. My gaze was so clear it was completely devoid of emotion. “If you believe your conscience is clean, that’s your business. I am under no obligation to sit through a dinner with a man who means nothing to me, just to play a prop in your performance of innocence.” The color drained from her cheeks, and her lip trembled. “Do you have to be so cruel? Performance? I’m trying to make you feel secure!” “I don’t need this kind of security.” I walked to the front closet and pulled out my coat. “Go if you want to go. You’re an adult. You don’t need to report your social calendar to me, and you don’t need to use me as a shield.” “Nathan! Are you giving me the silent treatment now?” She chased me into the entryway, her voice cracking. “I am doing all of this for you! I want you to see him so you know how normal we are! Why are you being so impossible?” “If you really cared about how I felt, you wouldn’t see him at all. But whatever you decide, it’s fine. I’m not stopping you, and I’m not angry.” I slipped on my oxfords, grabbed my briefcase, and opened the door. “Drive safely. I’ll see you later.” The door clicked shut. As the elevator descended, I leaned against the metal wall, my chest remarkably calm. There was no suffocating tightness, no tidal wave of jealousy or rage. When you finally sever the cord of expectation you hold for someone, even anger becomes an unnecessary expenditure of energy. At noon, my phone buzzed. It wasn’t Olivia. It was Marcus, my old college roommate who now managed a high-end used car dealership in the suburbs. Nate, I just saw Olivia at the Westside Auto lot, he texted. Attached was a candid photo. In the picture, Olivia was standing next to a sleek black Audi A4. She was on her tiptoes, gently fixing the folded back collar of a tall man’s dress shirt. The man’s profile was unmistakable. It was Ethan. The gesture wasn’t a hug. It wasn’t a kiss. It technically didn’t cross any physical boundaries. But the effortless intimacy—the quiet, ingrained muscle memory of two people who had once known every inch of each other—spilled out of the frame. I stared at the photo for three seconds, then swiped out of the chat. Marcus followed up immediately: Who the hell is this guy? They look awfully cozy. Didn’t she say she was swamped at the office doing quarterly reports today? I typed back a quick response: Old college friend. Helping him look at cars. Dude, since when does helping a buddy buy a car involve adjusting his clothes? You’re entirely too chill about this. Don’t be a sucker, man. I placed my phone face down on my desk and took a sip of my coffee. The bitter liquid coated my tongue. I wasn’t a sucker. I wasn’t being kept in the dark. I was simply standing on the shore, watching her willingly wade past the drop-off point into deep water. At four in the afternoon, Olivia texted me. Nathan, I canceled dinner with Ethan. I’m coming straight home after work to cook for you. Come home early, please? I read the message and replied with brutal brevity: Department happy hour tonight. Don’t wait up. I closed the messaging app and opened my company’s internal HR portal. There was a new posting at the top of the dashboard: Project Manager required for new renewable infrastructure rollout. Location: Seattle branch. Duration: 12 months. I moved my mouse, letting the cursor hover over the “Submit Application” button. I clicked the left mouse button without a second thought. It was nine-thirty when I finally got home, carrying the faint smell of draft beer and city rain. I pushed the door open. The main lights were off, leaving only the dim, warm glow of a lamp by the entryway. Olivia was curled up on the sofa, her arms wrapped around her knees. On the dining table sat three meticulously prepared dishes, sealed tightly with cling wrap. They had been cold for a long time. Hearing the door, she instantly uncurled and practically sprinted toward me. “You’re drinking? Do you have a headache? Let me make you some tea.” She reached out to take my coat, her eyes wide with a frantic, fragile eagerness. I turned my shoulder slightly, evading her hands, and hung my coat on the rack myself. “Don’t bother. I only had one beer. I’m going straight to bed.” Her hands hovered awkwardly in the air, her face freezing into a mask of hurt. “Nathan, I canceled on Ethan this afternoon. I went all the way to Whole Foods to get fresh sea bass. I’ve been waiting for you for hours.” She bit her lower lip, her eyes shining with unshed tears. “I know you’re mad. You think I was hiding the car shopping from you, but I swear I was just in the neighborhood! He needed a car for work, I knew some guys at the lot, so I went with him. And adjusting his collar—he just had a leaf stuck to his back, I was just brushing it off!” I stopped in my tracks and slowly turned to face her. “How do you know I knew about the car and the collar?” Olivia’s breath hitched. A fatal flicker of panic betrayed her eyes, and the façade crumbled. She dropped her gaze, her voice shrinking. “Marcus posted a rant on his Instagram story. He didn’t use my name, but I knew he was talking about me… Nathan, your friends are calling me a slut behind my back. But what have I actually done that’s so unforgivable? I helped a friend look at a car! I fixed a crooked collar! How does that make me a villain?” “Marcus posting on his own social media is his business,” I said flatly. “I didn’t tell him to do it.” “And what about you? Is that what you think of me, too?” She snapped her head up, tears finally spilling over, staring at me with manic intensity. “Do you think I’ve already slept with him? Do you think I’m dirty? Look me in the eyes, Nathan! Are you sitting there judging me like I’m some kind of whore?” I looked at her tear-stained, beautiful face. The absolute absence of emotion in my chest was almost deafening. Even the desire to defend myself had evaporated. “Whether you’re clean or not is something only you have to live with, Olivia. I’m not your judge.” I walked past her, heading straight for the spare bedroom. “I’m sleeping in the guest room tonight. You should get some sleep.” 3 The moment the guest room door clicked shut, Olivia slammed her fists against the wood. “Nathan! Why are you sleeping in there?! Talk to me! What did I do that is so terrible you have to freeze me out like this?!” Her muffled cries vibrated through the heavy oak door. I sat on the edge of the bare mattress, leaving the lights off, letting the streetlights cast long, distorted shadows across the floorboards. I used to love this woman. Deeply. In our three years together, I knew she liked her coffee with exactly two pumps of vanilla. I knew her lower back ached so badly on the first day of her period she couldn’t stand up. I knew that beneath her defensive, aggressive exterior was a woman terrified of abandonment. To give her security, she always had my phone passcode. I kept my conversations with female coworkers strictly professional. I even deposited my paychecks into our joint account. I thought the foundation of a long-term relationship was mutual reverence and respect. But it took Ethan walking back into her life for me to realize something fundamental: some people don’t want security. They want the privilege of trampling over the boundaries of a relationship with zero consequences. The crying on the other side of the door went on for half an hour, eventually devolving into exhausted hiccups, and then, total silence. The next morning, I woke up and went through my usual routine. When I walked into the kitchen, Olivia was sitting at the dining table, her eyes swollen like two bruised plums. She didn’t give me the silent treatment, nor did she throw a tantrum. She stood up immediately, her voice raw and gravelly. “Nathan, we need to talk.” I walked over and sat opposite her. “Okay. Talk.” She pulled her phone from her pocket and slid it across the table. The screen displayed Ethan’s contact profile. Her thumb had already navigated to the settings, hovering right above the red “Delete Contact” button. “I’m blocking him,” she said, looking at me with the tragic conviction of a martyr. “If his existence makes you this miserable, if you think I can’t handle my boundaries, then I will completely cut him out of my life today. Are you happy now?” Her finger hovered over the red text, but her eyes were fixed entirely on my reaction. In the past, whenever she pulled these dramatic, self-sacrificial stunts, I would instantly cave. I would reach out, grab her hand, and tell her she didn’t need to go to such extremes, just to please be mindful. Every time, I ended up playing the role of the petty, controlling boyfriend forcing her to sever a friendship. She always got to play the tragic heroine sacrificing her autonomy for love. I looked down at the glowing red button. A small, dry chuckle escaped my throat. “Go ahead, Olivia. Press it.” Her finger flinched. Her entire body went rigid. She stared at me, dumbfounded, the script she had rehearsed in her head choking her from the inside out. “You… you actually want me to do it?” “Wasn’t this your proposed solution?” I met her gaze, my eyes as tranquil as a stagnant pond. “If deleting his number makes you feel exonerated, do it. But you don’t need an audience. It’s your phone. Your social circle. You don’t need my royal decree to hit a button.” The color drained from her face, leaving a sickly grayish hue. Her thumb hovered over the screen for a full thirty seconds, shaking, but she never made contact with the glass. The only sound in the apartment was the rhythmic ticking of the wall clock. Finally, she pulled her hand back, flipping the phone over and slamming it face down against the table. Tears slipped silently down her cheeks. “You don’t even want me to delete him, do you?” she sobbed, burying her face in her hands, her shoulders shaking violently. “You’re just torturing me. You used to hurt when I was sad. I put the phone right in front of you. I’m doing everything you want, and you won’t even give me an inch!” “Why should I?” I asked, my voice terrifyingly calm, devoid of any malice but sharper than a scalpel. “If someone actually wanted to cut ties, they wouldn’t wait until there was an audience to press delete. You slid the phone across the table waiting for me to stop you. You wanted me to be the one to give you permission to keep him in your life, so you could claim the moral high ground. Isn’t that right?” She snapped her head up, reacting like a cornered animal. “No! How can you think something so twisted about me?!” “Whether it’s twisted or not, you know the truth. Besides, even if you deleted him right in front of me, there’s nothing stopping you from re-adding him later. You could just save him under a name I wouldn’t recognize.” “Don’t waste your energy, Olivia. If you truly understood the difference between right and wrong, you wouldn’t have found a dozen excuses to go see him.” I stood up, adjusting the cuffs of my dress shirt. “HR finalized my paperwork this morning. I’m transferring to the Seattle branch next month. I’ll be gone for a year.” Olivia looked as if she had been struck by lightning. Her pupils dilated, and she shot up from her chair, the tears drying instantly in the wake of pure shock. “What did you say? Seattle? A year?! Why wouldn’t you discuss something this massive with me?!” “It’s just a corporate transfer,” I replied coolly. “You don’t need to leave for a year! You have a great job here in Chicago! Why are you running away? Are you… are you breaking up with me?!” She lunged forward, gripping my forearm with bruising force, her nails digging through the cotton of my sleeve. For the first time, her panic was raw, stripped of all performance. “Nathan, look at me! Are you breaking up with me?!” I looked down at her white-knuckled grip on my arm. “Olivia, you are my girlfriend. You’re not my wife.” I finally spoke the words that had been calcifying in my chest for weeks. “And realistically, you are going to be someone else’s wife one day. I have no obligation to stall my career for a partner whose future is entirely uncertain.” She stumbled back as if physically struck, her grip on my arm going slack. “Someone else’s wife… You really think I’m going to marry someone else? We’ve been together for three years! We literally looked at venue brochures yesterday!” “We did,” I said, turning my back to her and reaching for the doorknob. “But that was before. Now, you’ve let ghosts into our house.” 4 From that morning on, Olivia completely changed. She stopped wearing makeup. She stopped checking her phone. She canceled every happy hour and brunch with her friends. She left work at five-thirty sharp and was walking through the door by six. She scrubbed the floors, washed the laundry, and cooked elaborate meals, practically sterilizing the apartment. She was trying to use this obsessive, self-punishing domesticity to pave over the canyon that had opened between us. But a canyon doesn’t just need pavement; the foundation underneath had already collapsed. On a Friday evening, I stayed at the office until eight. When I opened the front door, the air was heavy with the scent of expensive candles. The dining table was set with fine china, pan-seared steaks, and an open bottle of Cabernet. Olivia was wearing a simple white sundress I had bought her during our first year together. Her hair was pinned back, making her look unnervingly docile and soft. The moment I stepped inside, she rushed over, took my briefcase, and actually knelt to arrange my slippers on the floor for me. “You’re home! Are you exhausted? I made steaks, the wine’s already breathing,” she murmured. Her tone was so painfully submissive she couldn’t even meet my eyes. I put on the slippers, walked to the dining table, and sat down. I didn’t touch my fork. “Is today a special occasion?” She sat across from me, her fingers nervously twisting the fabric of her dress. “Today is… our three-year anniversary.” I paused. She was right. It was. Any other year, I would have booked a table at her favorite Michelin-starred restaurant a month in advance. I would have bought that pendant necklace she’d been eyeing, and the apartment would be filled with fresh tulips. This year, I hadn’t even checked the calendar. “I’m sorry. Work has been overwhelming. I forgot,” I said, my voice betraying no guilt whatsoever. “That’s okay! It’s totally fine!” she interrupted frantically, a flash of terror in her eyes. “As long as you’re here to eat with me, I’m happy. Nathan, about the Seattle transfer… can’t you turn it down? I talked to Kevin from your department. He said if you just submit a withdrawal form, they’d be happy to keep you at corporate here.” She stood up, walked around the table, and wrapped her arms around my neck from behind, burying her face into my shoulder. She was trembling. I felt the sudden, scalding heat of her tears soaking through my shirt. “Nathan, I know I messed up. I’ve been terrified for a month. I’ve been so scared you’re just going to pack a bag and disappear one day. Ethan and I didn’t do anything physical, I swear to God! But he crossed a line, and I crossed a line. I shouldn’t have enjoyed the feeling of being needed by him. It was my ego. I was stupid!” She clung to me like a drowning woman. “Yell at me, please! Tell me you hate me, but just stop looking at me like I’m a stranger. I can’t take this coldness anymore… I’m losing my mind.” I sat perfectly still, letting her hold me, my body utterly unresponsive. My heart felt like a stone resting at the bottom of an icy ocean. No matter how violently the waves crashed on the surface, the depths remained completely undisturbed. “Olivia.” My voice was a whisper. “I’m here. I’m right here, Nathan. Tell me what to do, I’ll do anything,” she babbled against my neck. “You haven’t realized you were wrong,” I said, reaching up to slowly, methodically peel her fingers off my chest. I stood up, putting a solid three feet of distance between us. “You’re just terrified of losing the man who financed your comfortable life and gave you unconditional validation.” She froze, her face chalk-white. “No… Nathan, I love you. It’s only you!” “If it’s only me, then why, last Wednesday when Ethan spiked a fever, did you use our joint Chase Sapphire card to send him an Uber Connect package with premium meds across the city?” Olivia’s pupils dilated so wide her eyes looked almost black. The temperature in the room seemed to drop ten degrees. “How… how could you possibly know that?” Her voice was shattered, her syllables barely holding together. Unadulterated dread finally crawled onto her face.
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