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I couldn’t believe what I was hearing “Dad had a heart attack, and that’s all you can think about? What’s wrong with you?”

“You know I’m as worried about Dad as you are But the doctors said he’d be fine, and you know if he could help it, he’d be back at his desk trying to do daot to worry about this company at all times, you know”

I hated to ad for a phone or laptop the et some work done

“Maybe, but he’s all I’ht now”

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I cockedabout?”

“First you put Mom in the hospital, and now this shit”

“You’re kidding ht?”

Saest sore spot between us—the sore spot to end all sore spots We’d lost Moo, back when I ay in the ht far too late to do anything about All thewe could do about it

She’d been in rough shape before that Mo the Marines well at all In her eyes, the whole reason Dad had amassed the fortune he had was to make sure her boys would be taken care of no o overseas—and infantry, at that—had the effect of putting nothing but night-draped box Ironic that I’d come home alive and hile she was the one on her deathbed

One of the doctors had offhandedly mentioned that stress could’ve made her recovery prospects dimmer, and that was all Sarudge, convinced that Mom and Dad always paid special attention to ht’ve led to her death—it burned in hi out every now and then like this

“Forget about it,” he said

“Yeah Good idea”

The silence returned Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a hard scowl on Sa that I very well could’ve taken another parent from him

Finally, one of the doctors who’d been with Dad approached us He was a trim man in his forties, with close-cropped blond hair and serious features

“Joshua and Sam Taylor?”

“That’s us,” I said, pushingon “What’s the news?’

“The news is he’s going to be fine”