‘You always throw money in my face,’ he’d said. ‘Because you spend all your money on yourself. You’re stingy with your family,’ said Crystal. Stingy was the worst thing you could call a Michif. She’d hoped to shut him up. But he hadn’t even blinked before he said, ‘Better stingy with money than emotion. You’re coldhearted.’ Coldhearted was the second worst thing you could call a Michif. And it was true. She was sometimes too tired to have emotions and had started acting rationally. She knew how men hated rational women.
