I found a covert note that my boyfriend's ex had left before they broke up, and after I showed her, I contacted her ex and it changed my life.

I folded my arms. "I mean, Matt... the cleaning thing?" It is not nothing. I hadn't really made the rapprochement until now, but you were doing less and less. And you never clean up behind you. That's how I discovered it. ”

His jaw tightened. "You didn't complain before. ”

"Because I didn't realize everything I let go of. ”

"Do you hear yourself right now?" His voice rose, making me shudder. "Two years of living together, and you're going to let the word of an ex-merimate destroy everything we've built? ”

"Constructed?" What exactly have we built, Matt? A relationship where I do everything and where you don't contribute? ”

"Nothing?" He slammed his hand on the counter, which made me jump. "I pay half the rent, don't I?" I do shopping sometimes. What do you expect more from me? ”

"I want a partner. Not someone I have to nurse. ”

A hand in the hair was already exasperated. "For heaven's sake, Rachel, are you really going to let my mad ex manipulate you like this?" It's not about cleaning... it's about her trying to confuse us. And you let her do it. ”

His words struck me like a slap in the face. It's not about Teresa. It is about us. But Matt refused to see things from that angle.