Ryan blinked, confused.Ryan: “What are you talking about? You can’t just leave!”Emma: “I can’t stay here and be treated like this anymore. I’m a wife, not a servant. I’m a mother, not your shadow.”He laughed nervously, looking at me as if expecting me to back him up. But I didn’t.
I stood up slowly, my heart pounding, and said the words I had been holding in for years:
