My Love, Her Leverage

lone at Vince's Steakhouse, waiting f

even checking myself out of the hospi

in chem lab. Won't make it.

signal for the check, a g

ld sto

her college roommate and her high school sweetheart, L

pped about me being "a sweet, dumb ric

g, "Can we not talk about h

nience, while celebrating "new beginni

uth: I wasn't her boyfrie

time. The pain was wors

fallback, the savio

call came, a soft apol

ed, until Luis sat besid

kedown for half a million dollars. A