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ME: There’s noleft

MASON: Then I’ll have to iet back to you with the outcome soon

I squeezed ainst the dashboard

I’d already putanother year when Mom could be out there wasn’t an option I needed to kno, before I was drafted, before I was a professional football player, if she lovedDropping me off on my birthday with the last wrapped present I’d ever received I’d been booted from my foster family with Alexis after two months Teeks before Christmas No, I needed to kno

When you achieved anything big, hit any level of fa out of the ork I needed to kno, before I had anything for someone to want to take a piece of, that Moenda based on what she could get from me… If she found me because she saw me on TV, it wouldn’t be the same

Otherwise, I’d alonder

And that wasfrom spectacular to bad to even worse

With a shaky breath, I switched to a different er

ME: Running a little late I’ll be there as soon as I can

JULES: Okay, just let me know if you need to reschedule

ME: No, I’ve got an errand to do and then I’ll be there

I’d make it up to Jules and then it would all be okay I just needed to clean a few things up, namely my sister, who couldn’t keep herself out of trouble

I climbed the three sets of stairs and burst into the apart hier clouded out the panic at what Alexis otten herself into this time

Grabbing onto the front of his shirt, I slammed him back to the floor He wrapped his hands aroundto throw me off

“Where the fuck is she?” I growled