I Took Her Apologies Too Literally
Language: en

The night before the legitimate heiress returned to the Harrington estate, my best friend, Phoebe, sent me a link to a trending Reddit thread. The title read: "How to Spot a Covert Martyr." I stared at my phone for three minutes, my eyelids growing heavier with every sentence. "Rule Number One: She will drag herself through the dirt first, just so everyone else lines up to stone you." "Rule Number Two: When she weeps and insists she doesn’t deserve what she has, it isn’t humility—it’s an eviction notice disguised as an apology." I let the phone drop flat against my nose, sighing into the…