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Chapter 1

Kinley

Then

“You need to slon on the whiskey, Kinley, or you’re going to be sick,”beside me out in the woods

I was trying to enjoy the end of the year party This here everyone froathered in our small town of Fort Worth, Texas

“Jax, it’s the last day of our freshh school! We’re officially Sophoh Why can’t you just live a little and enjoy it?”

“We both know you’re not ha of summer break, Kinley”

I rolledabout this”

“I know You never want to talk about your mom”

“That’s because there’s nothing to talk about”

“She wants to see you That’s not nothing”

“I have nothing to say to her”

“You haven’t seen or spoken to her since you rade”

I was originally fro us to start over Her words, notover for h since I was born Back in Ohio, I had no one until ot involved Here, I only had her and Jax

“You o live with my aunt or just be another abandoned kid thrown into the system?”

He sighed deeply, knowing I was right

Jax wasn’t going to win this argument My mother could try to reach ive her the tiood as dead like my sperm donor of a father was