Cutting My Losses

After five years of marriage, my husband, Abel Brooks goes on a business trip that lasts half a year. When he returns, he brings his first love, Cora Garrett, back.

She's already three months pregnant. Abel says that life is tough for her and wants her to move in with us temporarily.

I object, and he tells me to know my place. His tone is scornful—it seems he's forgotten that the villa we live in was one of my wedding gifts.

He and his family have leeched off me all this while. This time, I'm going to stop providing for them.