So,in his eyes,I was so disgusting.
I looked at the man before me.He was familiar,but suddenly strange.The man I had loved for more than a decade,the man I had given my whole heart to,now felt only disgust.
My voice steadied,oddly calm.“Ethan,have you forgotten how you knelt before my father,begging for help?Have you forgotten how I emptied my savings to plug the hole when your company was about to collapse?Have you forgotten the first hundred-thousand-dollar contract you signed,how you hugged me and spun me,calling me your lucky star?”
Ethan’s face flickered,like my words woke a bad memory.Seeing him hesitate,Natalie wrapped her arm around him and purred,“Ethan,don’t hold on to the past.Let it go.You can stand on your own now.Don’t be dragged down by old favors.”
Ethan was eager for an excuse,so he nodded at once.
“Right.Natalie is right.Jenna,stop digging up the past.I didn’t need your family to survive.Everything I have I earned myself.”
“You earned it all yourself?”I sneered.“With that shell company that lost money year after year until my family kept it afloat?Ethan,without us,you’d be back on the farm.”
“You—”