He Made Me Financially Dependent So I’d Never Leave — He Forgot I Used to Be a Risk Analyst, and I’d Been Preparing for Eleven Months

Chapter 5 — The Suitcases

Then I opened the deep closet beside Lucas’s window, and I reached behind the heavy winter coats, and I pulled out three large suitcases.

Lucas stared at them.

“You already packed our things?”

“I packed them three weeks ago,” I told him.

I had not known, three weeks earlier, that Brandon would choose that particular Wednesday to bring Cynthia to dinner.