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By the time the glass of red wine hit my face, the music had already stopped. 300 people stood there in a vineyard ballroom watching purple stains run down my hair and dress while my sister shook with rage in front of me. I could hear her breathing harder than the band’s speakers, see phones lifting, see my parents frozen near the head table.
All of it because I refused to sign away the only place that has ever really belonged to me. A small beachfront house she decided was hers by default. She picked the biggest moment of her life to punish me for saying no, and she wanted an audience for it.
Nobody even blinked. I just stood there dripping, trying not to flinch, knowing this was exactly the scene she had been building toward for weeks. Then, from table three, a chair scraped back hard enough to cut through the silence.
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