"He was nice, at least until then. I guess when I wasn't playing my perfect wifey role right anymore he didn't know how to handle it."

She nodded in thanks for the refill and clinked their glasses together.

"Oh, daily nagging and overcharging on rent." She adopted a truly pitch-perfect imitation of her mother, not that he'd know, and said "Harleen, you're a doctor! It won't kill you to give your folks a couple extra bucks!"

She shook her head and scoffed. "I'm a research assistant, and barely even that."