My Sister Texted That 47 People Were Coming to My Beach House for Four Days and Told Me to Stock the Fridge

” I said carefully. “But actions have consequences. Always.”

Outside the gate, things were unraveling in real time.

The event workers stopped unloading. One cousin stepped away from Paige while looking at her phone. Then another. Then another. Momentum shifted the way it does in crowds when embarrassment spreads faster than confidence. Paige turned in continue reading …