Madison posted online about “betrayal” and “toxic jealousy,” but the comments changed after one of her friends asked why her sister had been left alone in the hospital. Within days, the spa photos vanished. She moved out of her luxury apartment when our parents could no longer cover the rent they had sworn they were not paying. Kyle came to my apartment once. He buzzed from downstairs at 9:12 p.m.
“Clara, please,” he said through the intercom. “I just need to talk.”
I stood barefoot in my hallway, one hand on the wall for balance.
“No.”
“I didn’t know Dad used your name for the business.”
“You knew about the utilities.”
Silence.
“I was going to pay it back.”
“You never paid back anything.”
His breathing crackled through the speaker.
