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“Oh, I reanization—”

“Comedy club!”

“Well, you do h…”

See?

But back to business “I’ll pay you ten Gs a month, you’ll be available all hours of the day, but you don’t gotta see a soul You’ll take the calls, you’ll respond to the texts, and you’ll schedule sit-downs for me You can do it all from your couch”

I knew I had him at ten Gs He didn’t have a job lined up yet, and I knew his new address—nothing was cheap there They reed to thislike that and he’d been offered a job here, but Alfie hated not contributing

“Gi from the smoke and flicked ashes out the“It’s not just me anymore, Kellan”

“So you gloss over some details to your man”

He smirked crookedly, ruefully “It’s not just hiot to your place, but…” He pulled out his wallet and flipped it open

What the fuck?

It was a picture of a baby in pink clothes

“Get the fuck out,” I said “You’re kidding”

“Her name is Noelle We adopted her last year”

“Jesus” I switched lanes and shookwith people Men, in particular Gay otten that we don’t have to do shit like that”

“There’s so in,” Alfie drawled “We can’t all be closed off like you, Ford”

I wasn’t closed off

“I’m not closed off,” I stated

“Fine,to close off in the first place, because it ain’t normal to hate kids like you do—or pets, for that otta be just you, huh? No relationships, no attach on you except for your sister”