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"Rochelle, I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t urgent"

"It’s always urgent with you"

"This time it really is I’uy" He looked down at his shoes, clearly concerned "And now I have to pay it back"

"Let uess: you don’t have the money"

He nodded

She shook her head "Then you’ll have to tell him that he’ll have to wait"

"Rochelle, you don’t understand He’s not the kind of guy who’ll just wait If he doesn’t get his money, he’ll send somebody after me He’ll hurtall the air rush fro with?"

Steve ran a shaky hand through his hair, and for the first ti time she saw the little brother in hiot hih his own mistakes

"I had no idea who this guy was But Tom said that he doesn’t ask questions when somebody needs a loan"

"Tom?" she asked

"Yeah, an old buddy froreat idea, where we could totally make a shitload of uy?" Rochelle wanted to curse, but she suppressed the urge, because she didn’t want her neighbors to overhear her conversation with her brother "And that didn’t make you suspicious?"

"But the business idea was fabulous!" Steve protested

"If it was so fabulous, then how’s the business going?" She stared at hi the answer to her question

Steve avoided her scrutinizing gaze "Souy had the sahed Did her brother really not see that somebody had pulled a fast one on him? "Oh, Steve" She stroked her hand over his hair "When will you learn that nobody is as honest as you? You’re too trusting and are always being taken advantage of"

His dejected expression broke her heart