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I alave Mitchell his first joint Not the other way around"

"You’re so funny, trying to hs "When are you coht? Get on pudgy Mitchell Landers’s jet and co in the city That place is awful I need your help I’ phone calls from the insurance company and I don’t knohat to tell them You’d knohat to say"

Hello, real life, you’ve just coht Mitchell’s not leaving London until early next week" Thank Christ We’ve both been in agreeland But that leaves me only a few days with Rose before I have to return

And that’s not enough tiht, then"

"You can wait a few ht?"

"I suppose," she says sullenly

"Besides, a lastmoney and I don’t want to waste a dioing to be billed for," I say, exasperated with her, withto ht it That’s theever I can’t help it if they place their hydrants in ridiculous places where any car could co that statement "Listen, I’ll come home in a few days, okay? In the meanwhile, direct all calls froot it?"

"They won’t talk to you, Caden They want to talk to me I’m the one who caused the accident," she points out

"I’ive the the damn phone unless it’s ?" she asks, sounding well and truly puzzled She’s older than most of my friends’ moms, close to seventy, since she and my father had me late in life I was one of those cherished babies after they tried so hard for so nant The prized baby boy, the son they indulged and spoiled, turning hten up and become a man when I was only a teen afterand ended it

Fucker

"You have caller ID, Mooes on like this for a fewto tell ive two shits about I let her rauilt that washes over me expected I’m all she has She doesn’t have many friends, because all of her supposed dear friends ditched her after Dad jumped to his death and we lost most of our ed to soraduated high school

I finally end the call with Moainst the floor as I wait for him to pick up Cash isn’t his real name, because coo to in order to turn our loot into cash, and so it’s a nicknaeezer is close to Mo you’ve ever seen S this for years and tookwhen I first cas, but sley Where the hell are you, son?" Cash greets ravelly voice

"Still in London, old chap," I say, lish accent "Where are you?"

He travels around as h he’s based out of Miami most of the time He’s checked in on Mom more than once and I appreciate that, and so does she, since she flirts with hiet Plus, he looks like a typical lounge lizard Slicked-back silver hair, overly tanned skin, shirt unbuttoned halfway down his chest to reveal the gold old chain

Yeah Cheesy But theit

"I’uy New York accent before he bursts into laughter that turns into wheezing I let hio"

"And it’s been three weeks too long You’ve been co toyour handsoet home so I can take care of Mom When are you headed back to Miami?" I tell hih harder He’s always had a thing for my mom Sometimes I wish I could hook the two of them up so they could fall madly in love and he’ll take care of her for the rest of her life, not me

But that’ll never happen She refuses to let anyone in after what Dad did to her Not that I can blame her

"You knohat your mom needs?" Cash asks once I finish the story

"To be institutionalized?" I wish And then I immediately don’t wish, because what kind of shitty son a You know I am I’m the one who should be institutionalized"