She Ate My Mother’s Life

Summary

The day my mother received her critical condition notice, I knelt before Cathy, my girlfriend of seven years, begging her to save my mom.

Fifty dollars. It was barely the cost of one of Cathy’s fancy dinners.

But at that moment, it was my mother’s life.

After she refused, my forehead was bruised and bleeding from desperation.

“I’ll do anything, Cathy, please! My mother is all I have left!”

Cathy simply turned and walked away, not even sparing me a glance.

Yet that very night, she spent three thousand dollars, showering her childhood friend, Ethan, with a thousand online ‘carnival’ gifts…