A Million Dollar Bluff

mell of barbecue, but my sto

ith my fiancé Ryan's small-town roots this Tha

ame, and my father, a notorious soft tou

fund I' d given him for safekeepi

of manipulation, shaming my father and threatening to

complicit, as if I was the problem,

not just me, but my parents too, turning a

y betray me so completely, letting hi

lve settled in my gut, hardening into steel: I w

ed out a chair, and calmly