Reborn Rich: My Fiancé and Step-Sister Killed Me Once.
I wasn't ready to push it, and he clearly wasn't going to be the one to push first, not after everything.
I'd told Rita the truth about the older man story two days after the retreat, once the hearing had already blown Richard apart and there wasn't any real reason to keep it going. I framed it carefully, made it sound like fear instead of strategy, told her I'd panicked under Richard's pressure and made something up on the spot because I didn't trust anyone in that building not to use the truth against me. Rita looked hurt for exactly as long as it took me to apologize, then accepted it completely, the way Rita always accepted anything that let her keep being the understanding one.