One Like to Pull the Plug

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When I begged my multi-millionaire husband for enough money to buy groceries, the girl who had been living in our guest house—his childhood best friend—snapped a hideous photo of me crying. She posted it straight to his Instagram. "The leech is begging for cash again. One like equals one hundred dollars for her allowance. How many likes do we think she’s worth?" I lunged for the phone, desperate to delete it. But my mother-in-law stepped in, grabbing my wrist with a manicured hand. "Leave it," she said with a cold smile. "I think it’s a brilliant idea." My husband, Colin, chimed in, praising Melody for her "creative solution." Right then and there, he decreed that from that day forward, my living expenses would be strictly dictated by the number of likes that humiliating post received. For the sake of my grandmother, who was lying in a hospital bed clinging to life, I swallowed the bitter bile in my throat. I didn't dare fight back. Over the next three years, the likes dwindled. The joke grew old for his country club friends. When my grandmother was eight thousand dollars short for a life-saving surgery, I begged everyone I knew. The post only garnered 70 likes. When I finally got pregnant, my body was so severely malnourished that I needed prenatal supplements just to keep the baby viable. That post got exactly 2 likes. My grandmother died because her heart couldn't wait for a check that never came. And the child in my womb, starved of the very nutrients it needed to survive, quietly faded away into a pooling mess of blood on the bathroom floor. It was on the day my heart finally turned to ash, the day I resolved to file for divorce, that Colin was in a horrific car crash. Now, his broken body lay tethered to life-support in the ICU, but his spirit—his arrogant, insufferable soul—was floating near the ceiling, screaming at me. [Get the doctors! Call the best neurologists in the country! Have them flown in!] [If I wake up and find out you delayed this, I

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