{"id":29164,"date":"2025-10-16T12:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29164"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:38:47","slug":"29164","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29164","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I pretended to be shocked, my heart hammering cold and steady. This was the start I\u2019d been waiting for. \u201cHow could you say that?\u201d I cried. \u201cYou\u2019d think differently if you knew him\u2014if you knew why he\u2019s not here!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inpage\">\n<div class=\"hb-ad-inner\">\n<div id=\"hbagency_space_237868_4\" class=\"hbagency_cls hbagency_space_237868\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was a warning, a small chance for him to pull back. But Ethan never could resist twisting the knife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I knew him, I\u2019d probably laugh harder,\u201d he spat. \u201cYou\u2019ve always been gullible. I\u2019m the one who made you think you lost your own birthday money\u2014and convinced Mom you were stealing her pain patches when she had canc3r!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A strange satisfaction pulsed through me. He was destroying himself without realizing it. But I wanted him to go further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe this is about your own insecurity,\u201d I said coolly. \u201cYou can\u2019t have kids, and now you\u2019re lashing out because I do.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29158\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26790\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading.jpeg 905w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-300x75.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/comntinue-reading-768x191.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I pretended to be shocked, my heart hammering cold and steady. This was the start I\u2019d been waiting for. \u201cHow could you say that?\u201d I cried. \u201cYou\u2019d think differently if you knew him\u2014if you knew why he\u2019s not here!\u201d It was a warning, a small chance for him to pull back. But Ethan never could&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=29164\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29172,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29164\/revisions\/29172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}