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

wanted Elijah to struggle the way I had after Thomas died.

That was why, when he called me excited about a woman he’d met, I wanted to greet her with warmth and hope.

The first dinner was at Elijah’s place, a neat two-bedroom apartment that always smelled faintly of cedar from the candle he kept by the window. I arrived with a bottle of wine, my hair continue reading …