They Said I Would Always Come Last—So I Stepped Away And Let Them Feel It

neutral but his eyes slightly judgmental. The whispered conversation. Kesha’s friends exchanging glances. The second card she’d try—probably one of the others in my name that I’d already frozen.

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She’d call Brad. Brad wouldn’t answer because Brad had his own problems—problems I’d soon make much worse.

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