how my father interrupted my sentences.
How my mother always compared me and Sophie.
How Sophie could do anything without consequences while I had to justify every choice.
One evening Ethan asked me:
“Why keep seeking their approval?”
I’m tall:
“Because they are my family.”
He had looked at me for a long time.
“Being family doesn’t give anyone the right to hurt you.”
Those words had stayed with me.
Our wedding had taken place in secret.
Not because I was ashamed of him.
But because, at the time, I had discovered something that made me realize how dangerous it was to involve my family.
My father was trying to buy a company through front men.
They had used financial information they shouldn’t have had.
And I had found the documents.
When I confronted Graham, he told me:
“You don’t know what you’re doing.”
“I know exactly what I’m doing.”
