“At My Sister’s Wedding, They Told Me I Didn’t Deserve a Seat — So I Left… and That’s When the Groom’s Brother, the CEO, and 200 Guests Watched My Family’s Perfect Life Collapse.”
“I thought if I kept everything perfect, no one would see how scared I was. Of failing. Of not being enough. And Lucas made it so easy to believe I’d done it.”
I believed that. Not to excuse her, but to understand.
“I can’t go back to their house,” she said suddenly. “Not yet. Everything there reminds me of who I thought I was.”