CHAPTER 5: WHEN THEIR MONEY STOPPED WORKING, THEIR LOVE DISAPPEARED
The court approved the freeze two days later. Ethan tried ordering his usual expensive meals—declined. Tyler swiped his cards—each one rejected under court order.
They called Camila endlessly. She didn’t answer a single time.
Without money, the paid nurse quit. Tyler refused to do the work of caregiving. Ethan was left sitting in his own neglect—living proof that what he’d called “love” had only ever been convenience with a cost attached.
Camila joined a women’s support group and listened to stories that sounded eerily like her own, only wrapped in different details. She wasn’t naïve, she finally understood. She had been trained to endure.
