The Ring I Sold For Freedom

me spiraling back. Back to

res of Nicole, messages that left no room for doubt. I c

is

ot angry. "It's nothing, Gab

g!" I screamed. "Yo

called me cold, distant, said I hadn't been the same since I

house, grabbing his ke

im. "Ethan, don't go! We

ng with him to come back. I was so focused on him that I d

lowed me out

the street, calling hi

A sickening thud.

end's yacht, celebrating some deal, his phone turned off.

hospital, he held me. He cried wi

t didn'

tarted that fight," he'd say. "If you hadn't been

acing his own guilt, the guilt of not being there, the guilt of t