I paid for all of it.
For years, I told myself that was what partnership looked like in difficult seasons. I was stronger financially, so I carried more. Mauricio had ideas, charm, ambition, social instinct. He knew how to enter a room and make people trust him before he had earned it. When I met him, that confidence looked like promise.
Later I learned it was appetite.
That night, before I left the office, I picked up my phone and sent him a message.
Take care. I miss you very much.
He was supposedly in Singapore on a business trip.
He didn’t reply.
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