turned to watch the drama unfold. Jennifer

d, but it was all for show.

hat he did. He puts you under all this pressure to buy some fancy house you ca

kers. "Ethan wanted a huge down payment for a house in West Lake Hills. I was just try

lausible. I was the stable, pragmatic one. Jennifer was the ambitious one

to twist the narrative, how to paint me as the demanding, col

is would have broken me. I would have felt the shame, the guilt, the overwhelmi

' t that m

contorted in righteous anger. I looked at Jennifer, her tears glisteni

?" I said,

ot back, stepping closer. "You

ng the silence hang in the air. The

fer. "That' s a really interesting story. But

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