She Married Him, So I Left

Claire Bennett always said she loved me.

She also believed that if I truly loved her, I would understand why her foster brother, Adrian, had to come first.

So when Adrian claimed he needed her insurance to enter psychiatric treatment, Claire asked me to let her marry him for one year—on the morning we were supposed to register our own marriage.

After that, every boundary I questioned became proof that I was jealous, cruel, or incapable of respecting the man she called family.