Chapter 9 - The story they planned to tell

The recording continued.
Ryan:
“You sign today and this ends.”
Me:
“No.”
Sabrina:
“You are destroying seventy jobs because you want to punish your husband.”
Me:
“I didn’t create his debt.”
Then Ryan said something I missed in the chaos that day.
“You’re emotional. You’ve been emotional for months.”
I remember laughing.
“I’m pregnant.”
He answered:
“Exactly.”
Silence on the recording.
Then:
“You scream. You threaten to leave. You break things.”
I said:
“No, Ryan. You keep saying I do.”
He replied:
“Everyone sees it.”
Everyone.
May you like
That word scared me.
Because I finally understood he had been building a narrative.