Logan didn’t speak. For a moment, the room felt completely still—like everything was waiting for him to decide which version of the truth to give me. “Brooke…” he finally said, setting his coffee down slowly. “I can explain.”
That was it. Not denial. Not confusion.
Just I can explain. Something inside me hardened. “Then explain,” I said.
He ran a hand through his hair, pacing once across the kitchen like he needed space to build the story.
“It started a couple years ago,” he said. “Just one loan. I was trying to cover a business deal that went bad. I didn’t want to worry you.”
My jaw tightened. “So you forged my signature?”
“I was going to fix it,” he said quickly. “I did fix it—for a while. I paid it back. But then something else came up, and I just needed more time.”
“How many times, Logan?”
He didn’t answer.
“Five,” I said for him.
He stopped pacing.
“That’s what the bank told me.”
Silence filled the room again, heavier this time.
“I didn’t have a choice,” he muttered.
I almost laughed—but there was nothing funny about it.
“You had a choice every single time you signed my name,” I said, my voice shaking now. “You had a choice every time you lied to me.”
“I was trying to protect us!” he snapped, his voice rising for the first time. “You don’t understand the pressure I’ve been under—”
“Protect us?” I cut in. “You put nearly two hundred thousand dollars in my name!”
He looked away.
And that’s when I realized something worse.
“You weren’t going to tell me,” I said quietly. “Were you?”
He didn’t respond.
“The trip,” I continued, my heart sinking, “Cancun… that wasn’t a reset.”
Logan exhaled slowly, like the fight had drained out of him.
“I just needed time,” he admitted. “Things were getting tight. I thought if we got away for a bit, I could figure something out. Move some money. Shift things around.”
My stomach dropped.
“You mean run?” I whispered.
His silence was the answer.
I stepped back like I’d been burned.
“You were going to leave the country,” I said, barely recognizing my own voice. “With me… so I wouldn’t find out until it was too late.”
“It wasn’t like that—”
“It was exactly like that,” I said sharply.
For the first time, fear flickered in his eyes—not anger, not frustration.
Fear.
“Brooke,” he said more softly, stepping toward me, “we can still fix this. We’ll go on the trip, clear our heads, and I’ll make it right. I promise.”
I shook my head.
“No,” I said.
The word felt stronger than anything I’d said all morning.
“I’m not getting on that plane with you.”
His face hardened. “Don’t do this.”
“I already did,” I replied. “The moment I walked into that bank.”
I grabbed my bag from the chair, my hands steady now.
“Where are you going?” he asked.
“To fix what you broke,” I said. “Starting with protecting myself.”
“Brooke—”
I paused at the door, turning back one last time.
“For years, I thought you were taking care of us,” I said. “But all you were doing… was burying me with you.”
Then I walked out.
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