I Let Them Finish Eating Before I Took Everything Back

Then the temporary event permit. Then the short-term luxury lease filed through a management company. Weekend rental. Paid with a wire from an LLC that had been formed forty-eight days earlier and already had liens circling it like flies.

I sat at my desk and stared at the screen for a long time.

I should’ve confronted him then.

Instead I did what women continue reading …