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“Yes.”
I knew you’d be reasonable. I’ll send the details.
The venue was a high-end restaurant downtown, popular, crowded, intentionally public, the kind of place people chose when they wanted witnesses, validation, and a curated narrative that looked good from every angle.
She wanted the world to see that she had won.
I transferred the money that night.
What she didn’t know—what she couldn’t know—was that I hadn’t agreed because I felt generous or weak or nostalgic, but because timing matters, because patience isn’t passive, and because some betrayals don’t fade when ignored.
They wait.
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