My Parents Doubled My Rent So My Unemployed Sister Could Move In, So I Moved Out and Took Everything

Blocked.

Mark found me crying into his uniform shirt, the fabric smelling faintly like clean starch and the day’s cold air.

“I blocked them,” I said. “All of them.”

He pulled me close. “You dealt with a threat the way you deal with any threat,” he said quietly. “You neutralized it. That takes strength.”

For months afterward, they tried everything.

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