I took my girlfriend to a fancy dinner for our anniversary.

it was our anniversary, because she had curled her hair for the first time in weeks, because she had been excited all day, because I knew the fastest way to ruin a night was to let someone else’s disrespect become the center of it.

Then Derek leaned across Ava to place my entrée down and tipped a splash of red wine from the bottle he was carrying onto continue reading …