Goodbye, My Million-Dollar Boyfriend

At the dinner celebrating my boyfriend Daniel's new six-figure job, I watched him get down on one knee and propose to my best friend. The diamond shimmered brighter than any promise he'd ever made to me. He said, "Allison, she can give me the world. You? You'd only hold me back." He forgot who stood by him when he had nothing. He doesn't know his coveted job offer began with a single word from me. And he couldn't possibly imagine—in the ladies' room, the "golden ticket" he's desperately clinging to now links her arm with mine, a cold, thrilling gleam in her eyes as she whispers: "Phase one complete, darling. Now tell me… how do you want to ruin him?"