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“Get out”

He wanted t

o speak, to coht words

“Dad”

“Get out, Liaer my son”

He was bluffing It wasn’t the first ti And he’d done worse Walter had once likened Liam to a terminal disease He’d called hiain that he’d never make it in the world

And then he’d buy him a new car Give him a promotion

“Anything personal you had in this room has been relocated to your apartet that cleared out Anything left there at this tied You can keep the car”

“Dad”

“Get out”

Thecal His mouth didn’t twitch

Liaer

“You are no longer welcolass of water with the coffee he’d just been served “Either you go quietly or I will call security”

Lia back to his car He knew he’d done so on his own Without escort He cli the car with a cal at all

What did you do when you realized that what you’d counted on to never change didn’t even exist?