The Wrong Love
"You've been more than fair. I hope you'll remember that, going forward, in case anything like this comes up again with her."
I stared at her, stunned into a silence I couldn't immediately climb out of. She wasn't just deflecting. She was actively rewriting the story in real time, in front of a witness, turning her own theft into my irresponsibility, planting the idea that I was the problem tenant so smoothly that even I almost lost my footing on which version of events was true.
"Wow." Virelle's voice came from behind Maevra, arms crossed, watching my belongings pile up with an expression that wasn't quite gloating, just carelessly cold. "I guess this is what happens when you can't keep up.