Her Rich Upgrade Was My Staff

Four years after breaking up with my ex-girlfriend Vanessa Clarke, we ran into each other at a class reunion.

Someone suggested we play Truth or Dare.

Vanessa drew Truth. Someone asked her:

"In your relationships, what's the smartest thing you ever did?"

She glanced at me, a smirk curling at the corner of her mouth:

"Making my ex pay off my $700,000 in loans, then dumping him after I found a richer boyfriend."

Everyone expected me to storm out in anger, but I just smiled and gestured for the game to continue.

When my turn came, the question became: