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

cut. He made it sound like I was the attacker, like I was harming him by trying to protect him.

I swallowed hard. “Because your father died trying to protect you,” I said, forcing each word out, “and I’m not going to let his last months be for nothing.”

For a moment, Brian’s face changed. Something flickered in it, grief and doubt tangled together.

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