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Chapter One

NATHAN

Wake up, Nathan”

My phone vibrated against the dark oak of the bar, pulling me out of the memory I frequently lost myself in I blinked the room into focus, palmed the device, and slid enerous sip of whiskey

Get your ass home

My father’s text read as an order and was e I’d been expecting for a long fucking time I was shocked it hadn’t come sooner

He was finally stepping in The ue around me had been unusually tolerant of my shit the past twenty-two months But now he’d reached his li to uilt and cave, allowing this to drag on indefinitely Her only option was my father

He was the better choice anyway She knew I always listened to him At least, I did before, back e actually spoke to each other

I pushed off the stool I’d been occupying for the past two hours and drained the re the wallet out ofLevi’s attention

We weren’t friends I didn’t know the guy outside of this building But when you frequent the saht, you pick up a few names

“Thanks, man I’ll see ya tomorrow” Levi swiped the

“No,” I said, palaze “You won’t”

“We’ve raised our children, Nathan Your mother and I are too old for this We’re supposed to be enjoying our retirement, but we haven’t been able to do that, now, have we?” My father’s voice echoed off the vaulted ceiling of my family room and loomed over me like thunderclouds

He wasn’t screa He didn’t need to His voice carried no matter what volume he used, and truth be told, he could’ve whispered this shit toit now