“Can’t even afford a decent car, yet you’re sitting here having Christmas dinner with us?” they mocked me in front of the whole table. I simply set my glass down, looked straight at them, and said, “You should laugh a little quieter… because the building you live in belongs to me.”

he deserved it—but because I refused to become cruel like him.
“You have until five,” I said. “Same as any other tenant.”
Then I turned and walked toward the elevator.
Behind me, Lauren shouted, “Daniel, what else have you lied about?”
By noon, three relatives had called me asking what happened.
By three, the story had spread through the entire family.
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