But for a woman, I could really lose.
“Laura… what is it?”
I put a cup of coffee in him.
“You yourself said marriage is just a piece of paper.”
He looked at me.
And for the first time, he couldn’t find an answer.
But the most interesting part was at the bottom of the list.
There was a line there that Michael apparently didn’t expect.
And when he read it, he paled.
Because he realized: he had been preparing me for this for much longer than I thought.
He continued in the first comment.
“Because marriage is just a piece of insignificant paper. It doesn’t change anything. If you need a legal settlement to feel safe, that’s your problem, not mine.”
The woman at the next table turned around and looked at us.
I felt my cheeks burning.
But I didn’t cry.
I didn’t raise my voice.
