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"It doesn’t matter whether they houndI hate it all"

"No" His expression hardened "You don’t Soood but if you don’t get s to ruin your life over it Do you think you’re the only person in the world who has ever lost sorip It’s ti in the street doesn’t ‘hate all of it’"

"Well," I sputtered, unable to argue with that So I lied "I’htened his countenance "I’ve already checked into Tellurian You told the band you were quitting before you left Your old contract had coer and they signed a new contract Your old label has no legal hold over you and definitely not as a solo artist"

That the band had replaced me was not news to me I’d seen it on the cover of a tabloid I couldn’t avoid when I first started traveling across Europe Still, O’Dea didn’t know that, and he’d dropped the neith all the sensitivity of a joke during a death sentence The girl they’d replaced me with, Macy, looked somewhat like me, my once-rainbow hair and all

"If it h as they hen they had you," O’Dea offered

Disgusted, I replied, "No, that doesn’t rew quiet It didn’t last His impatience took over whatever decency he had "Sowhat’s it going to be? On the streets with no guitar and no way of et home and let them all knohere you are?"

"You would really kick ht now?"

"I’m a businessman, Skylar Not a philanthropist"

"That’s not an answer"

He shrugged

I bit ly name I could think of I choked out, "Can I think about it? Give ht to think about it"

O’Dea nodded "Think on this too If you sign that contract, you’ll be signing an addenduations within the contract, you agree to consult with a nutritionist to get your weight back up to where it needs to be, to a thorough health check, and to seeing a therapist once a week"

My lips parted at the audacity of his de o hungry and sleep on the streets, running away from their life because they’re mentally well, Skylar You need to speak to someone and you need to sort out your shit If only so we can balance out the albus that make people feel We don’t want an entire album that makes them want to kill the a therapist"

"There’s no shao see one"

"I don’t need a therapist"

"Oh, I beg to differ You’re a control freak You’re awful"

"I want you to be physically and mentally healthy How does that make me awful?" He strode toward me and I leaned back into the couch away fro into it "Youare an attempt to heal I merely want to speed up that process"

I didn’t kno to respond without involving violence

"You have tonight"