“I was confused.”
“You humiliated me.”
“I was angry.”
“You replaced me.”
His expression tightened.
“It wasn’t like that.”
I stood.
“It was exactly like that.”
He reached for my hand.
I stepped away.
That small movement seemed to hurt him more than anything I had said.
“Alyssa…”
“I begged you for nothing.”
I looked at him.
“I never asked for your money. I never asked for your company. I never asked you to worship me.”
My eyes filled with tears.
“I only wanted you to remember who was standing beside you when you had nothing.”
Aaron lowered his head.
I continued.
“When the banks refused to lend you another dollar, I saved Prescott Technologies.”
“When your investors walked away, I brought in new capital.”
“When your company couldn’t afford the patents that made your technology possible, I bought them.”
