DEAR EX, IT'S TOO LATE FOR REGRET.
I growled, stepping closer until our faces were only inches apart, the mutual resentment between us so heavy that it completely erased whatever affection we had shared during our college years.
"I am not going to stay here and listen to a broke manager lecture me about the future, because you are officially ruined, Derek, and if you cannot find a way to pay off the bank notices by tomorrow afternoon, I am taking my jewelry and leaving this house before the movers show up to repossess the furniture," Vera screamed, turning her back on me and storming toward the main bedroom while slamming the door behind her so hard that a decorative frame fell off the wall and shattered on the floor tiles.