“And you’re with him now,” Marcus said, voice tightening.
Adrian.
Even hearing it in his tone made something inside me straighten further.
“Yes,” I replied.
Marcus let out a short laugh.
Like he couldn’t believe it.
“Of course you are.”
That tone again.
That mix of disbelief and entitlement.
“I didn’t think you’d actually move on properly.”
That was it.
That sentence.
Something in me finally clicked into place.
I stepped forward slightly.
Just enough for him to feel it.
Not aggression.
Just certainty.
“I didn’t move on,” I said quietly.
His eyes narrowed slightly.
“I upgraded my life.”
Silence.
Cold silence.
I continued.
“I have someone who respects me. Who doesn’t reduce me. Who doesn’t cheat and then pretend it was confusion.”
Marcus’s jaw tightened.
“You’re real
