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Battle is a patched brother who’s a living legend Locked up in the high security penitentiary, he was in for life after he went down for a case of et hi to patchedtoo far He crossed a line and never came back from it

“You see why I kept it froot wind of the truth, we’d all be up shit creek” His voice is low and gravelly “I could getwith a brother’s faed me to take Calla on as mine and put my last name behind her, so I did”

“Holy shit”

“Yeah That whole fa if this shit is just in her blood It’s awful I know, but I can’t help it”

“How did she find out?”

“The da time she pays attention in school we end up in a total shit storets our blood type for a project I’m A+ and yourwe could say in the face of that”

“No one knows?”

“And they can’t” He narrows his eyes and his voice lowers to a gravelly growl

“Dad, I get that I just…” I shake my head

“Once she found out, she went off the rails and held the threat over us We had to handle her with kid gloves There was so rasp it I wanted to ring her damn neck But I had to keepfall to you It wasn’t perfect, but it was the best we could swing Your uilty, she bent over backward to kiss Calla’s ass, irl needed was an ass whooping and a wakeup call years ago”

“And now?”

He shakes his head “No she’s behind bars getting even crazier than she already was But when she gets out, Bolton will be a rown the fuck up, but I wouldn’t holdon that shit”

Suddenly, so hs as I try to take it all in My entire life I’d suffered because of an unfortunate birthright “Why didn’t you tell us or me? All this time she knew and I was in the dark Do you knohat it was like forto undo all the bad she did I didn’t get to be a teenager You’re all about living free, and you doo” I jump up from the couch “This is bullshit”

“Girl, you better watch your tone I didn’t want this I should’ve stopped it earlier I ads Part of me liked that you were on the up and up I had a lot of pride for your accoht like this”

“I thought I had to be perfect Do you knohat that feels like? The weight of the world on tiny shoulders God! I feel like I haven’t ever lived and I’m almost in