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I could tell when Para let us get absolutely annihilated by an opposing teaainst us, that… well, shit was not good at home

Honestly? I had et in on hers at the moment But I ordered her into a private chat anyway and asked as up

When all she would say was ot pretty riled up “Of course it’s your fucking dad, Para, when is it anything else in your life?”

She was quiet for a while after that I put o, if you don’t want to play properly and you don’t—”

“No!” She sounded halfway to tears I was doing a great job omen today “Dad has another faot home today I don’t think Mu mess”

Well, it didn’t surprise h Para would have a secret double life like that

Para took a big sniff “He wants me to meet this sister of uess he thinks we’re near enough in age that we’re going to beco Like, has he ever bothered to stop and look atlike that, Mum barely wants to spend ti about what he’s really like, either He was going on about how she found hi history, he was really pleased about that He likes to act like he’s soift, when he isn’t—”

It was tooup like that “Para, is your dad fucking Brad Chalmers?”

Para didn’t give me an answer in words at first, but I could tell from the way she breathed

“Yeah, I fucking knoho he is I’d even recognise him if I saw him at the shops, trust me, I know”

“You—”

“I watched as he met with your sister the other day, Para Yeah, I know her She goes toschool”

It ether forall over the place Once I was focused on soot it pretty damn quickly

“You said four years older She’s eighteen, same as me… How old are you, Para?”

I heard a clatter from her end “If you disconnect onspeak to you again”