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

at the garden outside as if the roses might offer advice. “The promotion comes with so much responsibility.”

“Men in power often change, Jen,” she said quietly.

I laughed it off because the alternative was too frightening. I told myself she was being cynical.

Then the distance grew physical too. When I touched his arm, he shifted away. When I tried to continue reading …