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“This junkie does,” Morgan said, sla the door as she strolled across the porch
Blake gulped “Morgan, I…”
She held up her hand “Don’t, Blake Let me talk, please” With tears in her eyes, she sat down on the swing directly across frohs, she shifted her gaze from one man to the next Finally, she looked at Grant directly and said, “I’ve been clean for five days They’ve been the worst days of my life
“Today is the first day I can re up with a fresh outlook on life Still, I’d take that needle over my next cup of coffee if you have one there in your pocket I know you don’t, but I don’t care to fantasize about possibilities all the same”
“What’d I tell you?” Grant asked, shooting Blake a sideways glance
A sudden shift in Morgan’s expression led Blake to believe Grant was pushing Morgan’s buttons A few an had always done, and her brothers let her get aith it She ran when things didn’t suit her In recent years, she seeicians
Private investigators hadn’t been able to locate her after she left the last ti to find out where Morgan ended up Blake didn’t want her to run away onceif she left East Tennessee, they’d never see her again
“Grant, let Morgan speak,” Blake said, tilting his head toward her “I want to hear what you have to say We both do”
Morgan took a deep breath and hurriedly said, “Let’s see, I have a three-hundred-dollar-a-day habit, ran through my inheritance from Mother and Daddy, and sold all o To put things in perspective there, I unloaded about ten thousand dollars worth of gold and diamonds for around six That’s hundred, not thousand
“Last year, I hooked up with enerously provided a daily fix until he ditched me for a chick without a substance proble tab and calculated that to rand, which he wants paid in full iet that much here”
“Kit and Ke around,” Grant deadpanned
“You never know,” Morgan said flippantly, taking a real attitude with Grant “Never hurts to ask the family to bail you out after you’ve ht?”
Blake wondered th
en if Morgan was ho to score the kind of money needed to pay off her dealer-slash-boyfriend, or had she coht and narrow path?