” he said.
I started packing up my papers.
“No. I just stopped serving as your backdrop.”
“You’re ungrateful.”
“I’m a tired woman.”
“I gave you everything.”
I looked up.
“You gave me humiliation in front of your brother. You gave me orders. You gave me debts. You gave me a hunger for respect. Everything else, I paid for myself.”
He stepped closer.
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