Not Your Savior

For ten years, Evelyn believed she and Leo were building a life together. Every dinner, every trip, every rent cheque split down the middle—she thought their fifty-fifty arrangement was proof of mutual respect. She never took a penny from him.

Then Leo is dying, and the will he dictates in his hospital room leaves everything to his sister, Chloe Coleman. Chloe watches from the doorway with a triumphant smirk, while Leo turns to Evelyn with weak, entitled eyes, expecting her to stay and nurse him to the end. Ten years of going Dutch, it turns out, was proof she had no claim to any part of his life—only to its labour.

Evelyn walks out, refusing to be his caretaker. But Chloe is not finished with her, and the apartment Evelyn paid half the rent for no longer opens to her passcode.