Chapter 6

Twelve thousand four hundred dollars.

That was the maximum we could lose if I canceled everything that afternoon.

Mark looked at the figure as if it proved his point.

“I know I should have told you,” he said. “But canceling now won’t undo that. It will only cost us more.”

“So I’m supposed to let the party happen because you made stopping it too expensive?”

“You’ve already made it clear you’re unhappy.”

“This isn’t about whether I’m unhappy.”

“We’ll lose thousands, Claire.”

He had created a disaster expensive enough that obeying him now looked like the responsible choice.

“You don’t…