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

lead to regrets. People act from shock, from—”

“I’m sure,” I interrupted. My voice surprised me with its firmness. “Can you see me today?”

“Of course,” he said, and I heard the shift in him. He recognized that tone. It wasn’t hysteria. It was decision. “Come by at ten.”

His office was in a quiet building downtown, the kind with carpet that muffled footsteps continue reading …