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"We’re not fine We’re barely hanging on If ant to keep our business running and for all our e to have to take one for the team"

Tara doesn’t look convinced "I wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to walk away Just say the word You’ve always supported me when I needed you and I know Daphne would say the exact sa if she were here"

I think about what she’s offering for only a split second before I discard the idea Although I know that Daph and Tara would essentially bankrupt themselves to keep me away from Finn, I wouldn’t be any kind of friend if I let them do it This is uratively

Maybe this is my chance to finally clean the slate of my past and offer heartfelt amends for my mistakes Only then will I ever be able to eful ex for that a he can do that would be worse than what I did to myself"

When I arrive at Finn’s place on Monday loves and the deteret to ht and now that I knohat’s going on, there’s no point in trying to iveness Finn needs to punish o and I can’t pretend I don’t understand his desire to do so

All I can do is grin and get through it because I need this contract even more than he needs closure

I push the door open and the s that I have to cover my nose with my hand

What the hell crawled in here and died?

I turn around and take in the rest of the apart dismay There are clothes strewn all over the place, even on top of the television There’s so from the bookcase that appears to be a sock and the air is rife with the stench of old alcohol bottles even though I don’t see any I guess he threw those away at some point

Did he have a party over the weekend? Finn used to be the type that I could ier any day of the week but the man I met last week seemed more sedate than that Then I re to be Heto do it

Once I walk in the kitchen and look down at the counter, I discover the culprit Finn must have had a tuna sandwich yesterday and left the reh He’s clearly coht below the counter where he left the funky sandwich I think it actually ht have taken him more effort to leave it on the counter than if he’d just done the proper thing and thrown it away