ey's
ster bedroom, stepping into what
h hit me. It was a cheap, overwhelming floral pe
ard the massive, cu
he pillows haphazardly pi
lk pillowcase. A long strand of bleached blonde
uddenly feeling thin. They didn't just flaunt their af
efiled
gentle, submissive wife I had maintain
ne woke up inside me. My family didn't just heal the
room door, stopping to l
tion near the staircase. They wore no Dors
cenaries, paid directly
ere!" I c
the bedroom, lining up a
ress off the
heavy, custom-made mattress, gave it a brut
t the window
mattress over the railing and hurled it off the balcony. I watched as it
the duvet, and the
are, tossing the expensive
shoved his custom suits aside. Stuffed in the very back was a row of cheap, brightly c
ngers. I marched out to the balcony and threw them over the edge. The clothe
you doing?" a shr
nger sister, stood in
ants that I had paid for, her f
"You're acting like a hysterical, jealous housewife. Jack
htstand. A silver-framed wedding photo
letto came down hard on the glass, shattering it
easured and deliberate, stopping o
he took an involuntary step back, her
family. My name is the only one on the deed. I bought this house. I pay the
rom her face as her eyes darted from the st
look at the captain
line on that pile of trash and burn it all. I want
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