Phoenix From The Ashes He Created

My boyfriend Jax and I were San Francisco's golden couple, our futures perfectly intertwined. Then his long-lost half-sister, Cinda, arrived, and he began choosing her endless, manufactured crises over me.

The night my restaurant caught fire, he abandoned me in the smoke to comfort a whimpering Cinda.

"Can't you handle your own drama for once?" he sneered, as my life's work burned.

He left me to nearly drown, accused me of faking a concussion after Cinda pushed me down the stairs, and called my pain a pathetic game for attention.