“Babe, after the wedding, we’ll move into your condo and rent mine out. It will pay my mom’s car loan!” He was certain he could play me. But my counter-offer pulled the rug right out from under him…

balance be under his name because he wanted reward points.

He had forty-eight hours to pay it or lose the date.

He looked at me.

“Claire, don’t do this.”

“You already did.”

His voice softened instantly.

“I love you.”

“No. You loved access.”

Denise pointed at me.

“You think you’re better than us because you have money?”

“I think I’m responsible for protecting what I built from people who discussed taking it.”

Ethan sank into a chair. For the first time since I met him, he looked small.

I removed