When you stop carrying a weight that was never yours to carry, and it falls, you did not drop it.

You merely stopped being crushed by it.

Their collapse was theirs.

I only stopped paying to hide it.

Chapter 17 — The Apology

Three weeks later, Theresa showed up at the reception desk of my company.

She was not wearing her designer jewelry.

She was not wearing the oversized sunglasses she usually wore like a crown.