as if I were being unreasonable. “Dale’s lease ended. Brittany can’t afford her apartment. We discussed this.”
“You discussed it. I said no.”
She waved me off. “You were hormonal.”
Evan adjusted Lily carefully. “Marianne, this isn’t happening.”
Mom looked past him. “Stay out of mother-daughter business.”
That was her mistake. Not the truck or the boxes. The certainty.
She still saw me as the twenty-two-year-old daughter who handed over paychecks whenever she cried about bills. She assumed exhaustion had made me soft.
What she didn’t know was that six
