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Cale and scanned it

The scraps Cut had giventhem lunch had been taken from this document The Debt Inheritance was there in its entirety

My eyes highlighted certain lines, re the ridiculous contract

For actions co

Even I agreed with that after he’d sent an innocent girl to her death by ducking stool and a boy to be raped for twelve hours

Bennett Hawk requires a public apology, ain, and most of all, bodily retribution

How h for the Hawks to soland, find their diah wealth?

In accordance with the law, both parties have agreed that the paperwork is binding, unbreakable, and incontestable from now and forever

That part I didn’t believe, but it wasn’t arguable In the minds and pockets of the Hawks, Weavers had to pay continuously toward the bottomless debt

But Jethro would’ve ended it

We could’ve been the last generation to ever have to deal with this brutal nonsense

Percy Weaver hereby soleirl-child, Sonya Weaver, to the son of Bennett Hawk, known as William Hawk This will nullify all unrest and unpleasantries until such a tieneration coa debts was the one who’d carried out the first Debt Inheritance? Had he taken great joy in hurting the daughter of his enemy, or had he hated it as much as Jethro?

This debt will not only bind the current occupancies of the year of our Lord 1472 but every year thereafter

How sorudges of wealthy madmen

Once I’d reached the bottoe "This was the last a a switch, I scanned the new docue hite and modern--only a few years old rather than decades

In the case of the last surviving line of Alfred ‘Eagle’ Hawk and Melanie Warren, the succession of the Debt Inheritance will go to Bryan ‘Vulture’ Hawk over his recently deceased brother, Peter ‘Osprey’ Hawk

I frowned, absorbing the legal jargon

What did itin a breath as I double-checked the fenature

"What--"

I read it again No matter how nature inked the paper, pri style to be

Right beside hers was Cut’s lared at Cut "You weren’t firstborn"

Cut smiled slyly "Never said I was"