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Her lips twitched even as her eyes shinned with unspent tears "That’s really nice of you"

"I know," he sighed, picking up her sandwich and placing it on her lap "I’"

He heard what suspiciously sound like a snort of laughter, but decided to ignore it as he devoured his four sandwiches It didn’t take Zoe long to tear through her sub and when she shot his last sandwich a wistful look he sighed and pulled out the sht just in case Zoe busted his balls over the sub She took it with a s him to finish off his sandwich and pick out a movie

"So, what else happened today?" he asked as he sat back down and threw his arainst hiainst hi o ho myself," she announced around another yawn

"Seriously?" he asked, not really all that surprised If anyone would notice what Zoe wasn’t feeding herself it would be a Bradford and since he knew his uncle cared for Zoe he wasn’t at all surprised that the man had taken it upon hi the duty onto so When his uncle cared about so stupid he really let them know it and he should know since he had firsthand experience dealing with his uncle’s "concerns"

When he’d dropped out of school at sixteen and got into a screa n the release form so that he could join the army, Jared had been the one to handle him As he yelled at his mother his uncle quietly walked into the rooainst the kitchen hile he patiently waited for the argument to end The et his ass back in school or move out he told her to have a nice life and headed for his roo for his age and looked at least eighteen and had twenty-five dollars to his naured he was more than ready to start a new life After his father hu with all his friends because of the special classes he had to attend he was damn determined never to return to school He hadn’t seen any real reason to He was a man and more than able to support hi he stor mother He didn’t make it three feet past the door before he found hiotten to mow and his uncle’s knee between his shoulder blades

While he struggled to free hi to him, in detail, ould happen to hiain without his mother’s permission and what he would personally do to Trevor if he ever heard hiain As soon as Trevor apologized, with a od only knohat else, Jared continued to tell hi to come work for him full-tioing to get his GED

His uncle didn’t ask him what he wanted He just told hi and be ready for work or his ass better be going to school Six the next ily waited for his uncle to pick him up and by the end of the day he wished he was dead He’d hurt everywhere, had blisters on his hands, was sunburned, exhausted, starving and o home and crash, but his uncle had other plans for him

Trevor woke up when his uncle announced that they were there, only to discover "there" was the coet out and go inside for his GED class and that his mother would be there to pick him up in two hours Before he drove off he explained ould happen if Trevor didn’t stay awake and pay attention Knowing his uncle didn’t make idle threats he stumbled inside and forced hiht ood job By then he liked his job and was pretty good at it so he stayed He saved his money, learned to flip homes with his uncle and by twenty owned his first rental property, a beat up tiny cottage by the pond that he fixed up and once he did he never had a proble price Since then he’d bought several more rental properties and flipped at least two houses a year

He knew there ht come a day when his uncle decided to sell the place and retire and he didn’t want to find hiuy who couldn’t read orking for hi for his uncle he knew he could more than take care of himself He also knew that if his uncle hadn’t threatened to beat the shit out of him numerous times over the years that he would have probably fked up his life big tio

Of course his uncle was also a big softie when it caht now forZoe cry, but it had been for the best He’d wondered why she gave in, not that he really thought she gave in that easily, but he figured he was going to have to tie her down to feed her He was glad that his uncle did most of his dirty work for him Not that he really expected this to be the end of it He wasn’t fking stupid after all