I was 7 months pregnant at my brother’s engagement party when my dad handed my Mercedes keys to his fiancée like it was his gift to give. I demanded them back, but instead of

tuition. Wedding money. Family vacations. Business introductions. He never offered anything without attaching a hook.

But the Mercedes had not come from him.

Ethan and I had bought it ourselves. We had saved for it. We had paid it off. It was mine in a way my father could not claim.

That had bothered him more than I had understood.

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