“I was going to tell you.”
“When?” I asked. “After the flight landed?”
Mom grabbed his arm.
“Richard, what did you do?”
He snapped, “I did what I had to do. Natalie never says no when it matters.”
And there it was.
Not love.
Expectation.
The banker explained that the charge had been stopped and that the travel agency would cancel the Hawaii package unless another verified account paid the balance by the following morning.
Kayla stared at me in disbelief.
“You’re ruining everything.”
“No,” I said. “I stopped financing
