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"Tomorrow’s Saturday," he says "And I’ll take care of you Have another"

"I don’t need to be taken care of, Shane"

"Tonight, with h to let that be okay"

"Trust There you go with that word again You keep saying it"

"I guess I do" He eive him a curious look "You haven’t asked what happened with your mother"

"What happened is, my father refuses to let s"

"Brain?" I gasp, setting down lass "He has brain cancer?"

"Yes And after six , it still seems unreal"

"How can he have coh to have hs without humor "That’s debatable What happened withcan shock me with my family"

"I’m not so sure but okay She offered me fifty thousand dollars to stick it out with your father through his illness and report to her on all of his activities"

He pauses with the glass to his lips, lowering it to ask, "And what did you say?"

"My ansas no and she thought I was crazy, especially when I told her she could fire me"

"And she said?"

"That I’ood weekend I’ to use ood portion of law school"

"That’s not hoant to pay for school Unless you want me to help her? Because unless you tellinforive her anything," he says, his state he doesn’t trust his mother, but then he turns around and sideswipes me with, "I’ll pay you the money"

Insulted and hurt, I’ away, but he shacklesaround to face hiht with sex or money"

"I didn’t mean it like that You were loyal to me and I want to take care of you"

"I told you I don’t need to be taken care of"