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I put on ht, and I did need to work through my past Perhaps therapy could help

I hadn’t done s stuffed inside There had been a time in my late teens and early twenties when I drank too much, but I kept that under control these days I could take a beer or tithout drinking to excess

If I was honest, I feared Idown the sa smack, of course, but I had relied on a substance to cope with life just the saround

I couldn’t iain, I guess he never i to him, either, until it did

I also felt bad about Maggie About not telling her about that part of ht scare her off if she knew the whole, ugly truth Addiction could be genetic

Plus, she had specifically asked h in the past Not unprovoked, but still Once you’ve fractured ayou tended to forget Even if he had been shanking your baby brother at the time

I wasn’t sure if Maggie would accept me for my scarred past But I needed to coht and that I would go for therapy and, if I had the guts, I needed to tell her what really happened and what I was really like when I was younger before I cleaned up my act

The gate to her apartot there, so I didn’t have to buzz, which was nice because it would add to the surprise I just hoped that she was hoot to the door and heard yelling

It was Maggie I pushed open the ajar door to see as happening

“Oh, come on! I’m really tired of surprise visitors today,” she said as I walked into the kitchen

I was about to ask what sheover by the sink with an open beer

“Seriously?” I asked

“What?” Kenny asked

“Come on,” she said and tookthe door behind her so that Kenny couldn’t hear us

“What the hell happened?” I deie “Are you still pissed about what I said last night? Because you sure see ex here Were you double-ti me the whole time, or is this a new development?”

I couldn’t hide the venom from my voice

“Oh, yeah, you’re one to talk about secrets,” she spat back “Hiding the truth about your fa for me”

“I ca into therapy for all that I need the sort outto be emotionally healthy”