The Group Chat Read: “Family Trip to Celebrate the Mistress’s Pregnancy.” My Name Wasn’t There. I Wasn’t Invited. So I Opened the Filing Cabinet, and By the Time They Got Home, I Had Quietly Erased Them From Every Legal Record I Owned.

peace.

I did not respond, but I sat with the message for a moment before I deleted it.

I found that I felt nothing toward Hailey specifically. She had not invented the situation she had walked into and she had not made any promises to me. What she had done, and what Ethan had done, was their accounting to handle. I had enough of my own.

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