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“Come on in” It was Sam

Josh and I shared a look, one that suggested we both knew so Then he opened the door to the office Sure enough, everyone ere looking for was there

And they didn’t appear happy

Walter and Moe area by the fireplace Sa a presentation And each pair of eyes that fell onto us had the saer

I knew right aas happening

“Have a seat,” said Saot a lot to discuss”

Chapter 37

JOSH

It was probably around six aet a wink of sleep There was so ironic to it—back when I was a kid, Christet to sleep But that was on account of excite aited for me under the tree Usual kid stuff

But there I was, a grownthe same problem but for completely different reasons Nahtdown around me

The conversation, if it could even be called that, was hell We’d coon how you looked at it Sa Dad and Cass’s parents know that we’d been lying to the

It all broke down after that There was yelling and tears and stunned silence As I tried to cal, the s he was s had turned out

The little shit had gone back on his word, not even giving me the chance to coinning, orthe neouldup had beenthat away fro the knife

It all ended with Cass’s fa me with Dad But the old man didn’t have a word to say to h times over the years to know that was his standard reaction toup However, when he was reallyot

There hadn’t been anything left to do but suffer through the rest of the party, offering up a laency for anyone who’d noticed the hurry in which Cass and her family had left Thankfully, Sa anyone other than our faotten out to the rest of the party

When the party finally ended, I’d been ready to crash I went up to h to put ht away Unfortunately, that hadn’t been the case