He stared at his wife.
She looked terrified but kept going.
“She cooked for us. She raised Noah half the week. She cleaned our house. She paid bills. She gave us almost all her money. And yesterday I stood in a grocery store and humiliated her because she wouldn’t buy food for your stupid dinner.”
“My dinner?”
“Yes, your dinner!”
“You picked half that menu!”
“And you told me your entire promotion depended on impressing people with a house we can’t afford and a lifestyle we never actually earned!”
“Careful.”
That one word changed the air.
Melissa flinched.
I saw it.
Ruth saw it too.
Melissa’s face hardened.
“No. You be careful.”
Grant took a step toward her.
She stepped back.
Then she pointed at the SUV.
