When Huge Fortune Calls

rtime, hospital visits, and Jessi

medical bills kept piling up, Sal' s

a forgotten dream, Ky

e next bombshell, casu

yle needs anothe

and? For what now, Jessie? Did his

al investment, something about servers and expan

sh to what? O

ne-tired, of th

ve returns," she pressed, her voice taking

usand dollars, we don' t even hav

, "There are ways, you could take

od ran

loan? Are y

could ask your parents, maybe they could mortgag

ly seeing her, maybe

heer, unadulterated

one for that tiny row house, who were already str

s to risk their home, the only thing they

y voice surpr

insisted, "For Kyle' s future, for

uture? What about my father' s health? What about the sacrifices I' ve made, the double s

hat," she said, h

out my dad? When was the last time you contributed anything,

it then? You don' t support me?

er sound, "I' ve bankrolled your fa

rising to a shriek, "After everything I' ve

detachment, the anger rep

g me back, you' re not ambitious, you' re co

lothes, your dinners, your brother'

r money!" she spat

bedroom, I heard a

d, my hea

ttle trinket I' d ever given her, the cheap ceramic dolphin

punctuation mark

ie, s

hand from a broken frame, "You don' t love me, y

said, but the words

m done, Ethan, I' m leaving, I can' t do thi

d her purs

me, "But you owe me, Jessie, you and

ghed, a cold

n she was gone, the door slamming behind

e wreckage of our memori

a flicker, not of sadness, but of so