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The man ere here to see wasn’t at one of the tables by the stage or in one of the velour booths off to the side Nope, he was sitting at the bar with his head bent over a rocks glass He didn’t look up when Brysen sat on the bar stool next him as I hovered off to the side over his shoulder, ready to step in if she needed me

Brysen turned in the seat and shook her head when the bartender asked her if she wanted anything Finally the man looked up at her and I saw shoulders tense and then fall in rapid succession “Brysen”

“Dad”

Brysen’s dad visibly started at the sound of her soft voice

“I’ht me here to offer you one shot, one chance, and if you don’t take itwell, then whatever happens next is all on you” She aze as I watched her over the top of his head “I’ out of her progra her to file for divorce just in case you ondering what’s going on with your family”

He looked like the weight of her words hit him like a physical blow and he slumped even farther over his drink

“I don’t have the money I just don’t” He sounded dejected and pathetic I saw Brysen roll her eyes

Interesting he mentioned oing to point that out unless I had to

“You’re pathetic You poisoned Mo we had You used me, and when it ca them like a man, you ran What kind of moron thinks they can hide from a bookie? Jeez, Dad, don’t you think everyone who can’t pay up runs? Race wouldn’t be very good at his job if he just let theo, noould he?”

Brysen sighed heavily and told hiotiation, “I want you to understand that this offer has nothing to do withmore than to see you suffer just a fraction of the way you made the rest of us suffer the last year”

He just gazed at his drink al I leaned my elbow on the bar on the other side of hilanced at me out of the corner of his eye “Better listen to her or this conversation moves outside with me”