Chapter 343

Her tone dropped in an instant, sharp and defensive, like she'd just been cut open on an old scar. "I can agree to anything else, but not this. No way!" "You don't even get it-what he and I have been through in the last ten years!" "When I was flat broke, couldn't even afford dinner, he stuck with me. We crammed into a tiny ten-square-meter apartment and toughed it out." "I wanted to learn programming-he juggled three jobs day and night just to pay for my classes, all so I could study under our master!" "And now, just because I've made it and people call me some 'Brocade success story,' I'm supposed to kick him to the curb? That's not who I am! I'm not that kind of ungrateful person!" Calliope pressed her lips together, frown deepening, and her voice firmed up too. "But he cheated, Miranda. A guy like that doesn't deserve you." "That's on me!" Miranda snapped, bristling with frustration. "These past years I've been buried in work, barely home. I wasn't paying attention to what he neede