The next morning, I transferred $25,000 — nearly every penny I’d made from the flower shop sale. It wasn’t a small sum. But I told myself if the tables were turned, Lisa would do the same for me.
We wrote up a simple agreement over coffee at her kitchen table. We both signed it. Nothing fancy. Just two sisters trying to do the right thing.
But one year came and went. Then two.
And the only thing I received in that time were excuses.
“It’s been a rough quarter,” Rick would say, shrugging.
“Tuition came due for the kids,” Lisa added. “We’re stretched thin.”
Yet social media told a different story.
They posted about weekend getaways, new handbags, lavish birthday brunches. And one day, Rick pulled into their driveway in a shiny new SUV.
That was the moment I started saving screenshots. Not out of spite, but because I knew — deep down — I was being taken advantage of.
A Thanksgiving Confrontation Changed Everything
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