I donated bl00d to save my boyfriend after his friends told me he had been in a serious ac:cid:ent. As I was leaving the hospital, I heard someone behind a door say, “I can’t believe she fell for it again.”

this?” he yelled, his tone turning angry. “After everything I’ve ever done for you?”

“What exactly did you ever do for me?” I asked back softly.

He answered instantly.

“I gave you a prominent place in my social life.”

Once, those words would have made me feel grateful. That night, I finally understood how little I had accepted from him.

“You never gave me a place, Brendan,” I said coldly. “You simply turned me into an emotional punching bag to avenge another woman.”

He slammed his fist against the door.