The Paid Bridesmaid

by Sariah Wilson

It was not uncommon for women of this generation not to have any true friends.

I liked being in control. Who didn’t? “I can be flexible. Totally flexible. Just as long as everything is going exactly the way I want it to.”

I was done. Somebody needed to stamp the word finished on my forehead and just put me to bed before I got any more bad ideas

The worst is how hard it is to trust myself. When someone else makes you question everything—your judgment, your decisions, your intuition—that’s hard to recover from. He undermined my belief in me.”