My Parents Doubled My Rent So My Unemployed Sister Could Move In, So I Moved Out and Took Everything

the initial adrenaline faded.

Then I called back.

My mother answered on the first ring. “How dare you,” she shouted. “How dare you strip that apartment bare and leave your sister with nothing?”

“Everything I took belongs to me,” I said, voice steady. I surprised myself with my calm. “I paid for it. None of it belonged to you.”

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