I Refused to Give My Card to His Sister and Breakfast Turned Into Something I Didn’t Expect

was a tenant in his life.

At the door, Ryan said the truest thing he had said all day, maybe the truest thing he had said in months.

“You’re really leaving me.”

I turned once.

“No,” I said. “I’m leaving what you became. You can stay here with your sister and the bills you assumed I would keep paying.”

I walked out into the afternoon.

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