My boyfriend always made me delete every photo of us I shared online — then one day, I received a note that said, “I think you deserve to know who you’re really dating.”

”

I stared at the screenshot until the words blurred.

“Kim?” Avery asked.

“That message was from my birthday weekend.”

Avery went silent.

Then she said, “He told me he was visiting his mother.”

It had been my birthday trip.

“He told me he wanted to be fully present with me.”

Neither of us spoke for a moment.

It wasn’t just cheating.

It was planning.

I opened continue reading …