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“She brought you back into the fold, Damian What I want to knohy you were at Ivan’s Your father never asked, and none of your brothers did either It’s why I know the proble attention Why don’t you start by telling me the truth?”

Daoing to let him out of this damn car “You want the truth?”

“Yes, I want the truth, and I’ll know if you’re lying I’ve been away, but I’ly asses for a time”

“What do you mean?”

“I didn’t live in England forever, and I didn’t ht away We all helped raise you Your mother had six boys one after the other We all had to pitch in You guys were not easy, not by any stretch of the i hard Jacob was always exploring the house There was one ti after Oliver around

the house When I asked what he was doing, he said he saw it on television Little brat had changed the channel to a horror one, and thought it was okay to start killing his brothers That was a hard one to explain”

Da down ht now?”

“I just thought about the fact that you’re one of the youngest of et pretty hectic with life and shit, and you may have been left behind”

“I don’t need attention, Rick I’rown ass man”

“And yet you were at Ivan’s for a reason, and I want to knohat it was You’d already told your dad and brothers to fuck off You couldn’t stand Gabriel or any of the Coltons, so keep it real for me, Da, and Da

“We’ve got shit to do”

“Did you find what you were looking for at a bottom of a bottle, or is that why you want to Ivan’s? You were causing a fight there Trying to gain attention”

Daht the car to park at a curb outside of the cemetery where he had laid Betty to rest “What the fuck are you doing?” When he went to pull on the door handle to let himself out, Rick locked them

“You’re not leaving, and we’re notan inch until we resolve this problely well I know you’ve got it in you, but now I need to deal with that other tricky little problem”

“Is that what all this is about? You think I’m a problem?”