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"You’ve been playing me since the first time that you realized that I wanted you"

"How?" she demanded

"You keep yourself distant froht"

"I do not!"

"Oh no?" His eyebrows arched "You’re mad at me because I paid off your debt so that you wouldn’t have to struggle for the rest of your life to fix your credit or scrape to get by"

"I was doing just fine without your help"

"Bullshit, I know the ah clenched teeth she spoke evenly "I was doing fine I didn’t need your help!"

"Oh no? I know you lied to your grandainst your student loan If that was true they wouldn’t have been threatening to take you to court for nonpayment Four months Madison, four months you missed payments You have the same problem with the insurance coo They just forgot to tell the police that or I guarantee someone in my department would have come for your plates"

She looked away "This is none of your business, Ephraiht What happened to all that rand saved up The Jeep cost fifteen so what happened to all that otten out of trouble yet, because you fell behind on all of your bills You don’t spend any money on yourself You don’t put h ?"

He leaned forward "Telltwelve hundred dollars a asped

"Yeah, I know about that Who does it belong to?"

"That’s none of your business!"

He pulled back, s His eyes were hard as stone "Really? Notcare of a sixteen year old boy on the er two hundred dollars that you have left over after you send away the twelve hundred dollars?"

"Shut up!"

"Is Chris going to have to continue getting his food in the sa about?"

He crossed his arht you knew everything Chris’s ive a fk about hiets food stah she wasn’t counting on any help from her

"Yes, she does One would think she would use those stamps to buy the boy some food"

"She doesn’t?"

"She trades them for money For a lot less than they’re worth Whatever she doesn’t spend on herself she spends on those losers she drags into her bed"

"He looks healthy I know he’s eating"

He shrugged "He waits until dear oldthe men busy while he lifts their wallets She takes a cut of course and I’ve been dropping food off on their front steps when only he’s home for the past three years He thinks the church has been leaving it"