HER BOYFRIEND SAVED HER IN HIS PHONE AS “FREE DINNER”—SO SHE CANCELED HIS BIRTHDAY RESERVATION AND LET HIS CARD GET DECLINED IN FRONT OF EVERYONE

watched her. “You okay?”

Valeria leaned back on the couch and exhaled like she had been holding her breath for two years. “I don’t know yet.”

“That’s honest.”

“He’s going to come home angry.”

“Then don’t be there tonight.”

Valeria looked at him.

Sergio’s voice softened. “You heard him planning to dump you after you paid for his birthday dinner. He called continue reading …