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“What about Mom? Does she know about this, or is that why you have no proble her in a steady supply of booze? She’s already depressed and allher to self-medicate will keep her off your back while you lose whatever this family has left”

He flinched and I saw the horrible truth ofwith my family?

He heaved a heavy sigh and flopped back in his swivel chair He covered his face with his hands, and right before my eyes suddenly looked a hundred years old

“There isn’t anything left to lose, Brysen My 401(k), all our savings, the credit cards, and lassy and he looked really scared when he told e on the house hasn’t been paid for months and months We went into foreclosure ato dig out of the rut the recession put the to happen eventually We’re going to have to leave when the bank takes possession”

I felt o ice cold I exhaled slowly and saw the rooes of my vision

“So you are tellingto lose the house, that no e schools and end up tossed around and uprooted?”

He didn’t answerthat had happened inside these walls over the last year

I shook ”

I turned and went to go findher it ell past tiraet two more jobs to pay for it The chaos that was the Carter household ended today

“Brysen” My dad’s tone was sharp, so I stopped and looked at him over my shoulder with one foot already out of his office “How did you find out?”

Well, that was a tricky question, wasn’t it? I gave a bitter little laugh “Race Hart a lot of tiether the last feeeks”

He bolted up in his chair and slammed his hands down on the desk

“No I forbid that He’s not a young erous”

I knew that, but so far, all that danger was directed at other people and all he had done for ht about now, out of the two of them, Race and my dad, Race was by far the lesser of two evils, even if I was seriously pissed at him