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Chapter 1

I licked it So it’s mine

-Fact of life

Michael

“You’ll need to et to the house by six if you want to make it on time for dinner,” ets when you don’t show up on time”

I winced

I did kno ot

Irrational is what she got

It’s as if she hadn’t been married to a doctor for the last thirty years

I can’t naot to any event on tiraduation, or hell, even a fucking birth

Not one ti late, but her baby boy was late and suddenly the whole world stopped

“I’ll try to be on ti I have to work until five thirty; it takes nearly thirty et to your house from the station And that’s if I leave on time I told her to make sure she held the party later, but she wouldn’t listen”

“Joslin wanted six,”the door to his office “And that’s when Dean could be there”

I squeezedmy hardest to not punch a hole in the ith my fist

I had no earthly idea why my mother continued to invite my ex-wife

Dean was at least my fuckin’ brother, and I could understand why he’d have to be there

It was as if er married to me Usually the family chooses the child over the child’s ex

We were together for a little over a year and a half when I found out she’d cheated

Granted, the reason she’d cheated had been ive her the right to do that to me

We’d taken vows And I’d at least meant them

Refraining fro, ‘Fuck Joslin,’ I walked to the side doors of the hospital and to the ambulance bay with my father

“I see,” I settled on

My father’s face looked pensive, as if he wanted to say so, but didn’t kno to say it

“Michael, I need to tell you so…” my father started

I would’ve stayed to listen, but the

“The nearest unit is needed at 5543 Pleasant Circle Possible double homicide,” the dispatcher ordered

Sighing, I turned and offered my hand to my pop

“Gotta go, dad I’ll tryanything,” I told him

He nodded, looking for the world like he was upset that he hadn’t said what he had to say, and shook , “Be safe”

My father, like o into law enforcement

They’d spent thousands and thousands of dollars to get h medical school only for me to quit to join the Navy

Once in the Navy, I’d continued ot e in , did I decided that theI was much interested in anymore

Which had pissed both my mother and father off

Immensely

But I’d hated it

I’d only done medical school because it was expected

None of my family could understand why I’d quit