Chapter 4

I left right after saying that.

I didn't care what chaos followed.

After getting in the car, I realized my hands were shaking.

Seven years.

From eighteen to twenty-five.

I'd been with Ethan from when he had nothing to now, through his father's hospitalization, through the company's hardest times, and watched him change from someone who only wanted to treat me well into what he was now.

I used to think that when people changed, there must be a reason.

Later I realized not every change of heart deserves investigation.

Some people just take advantage of your unwillingness to leave,…