Chapter 62

AARON

Holy shi t. I just walked into a frat house.

That’s my first impression of Pack Roberts’ main hall.

There are pool tables and flat screen tv’s. Bars with cases of alcohol stacked haphazardly. At least a dozen empty kegs are lined like silver building blocks along one wall.

Couches have cigarette burns and look old, the leather faded and cracking.

I stare into the far right corner. Thinking I must be wrong about what I see.

But. Nope. It’s right there…

A stripper pole.

Naturally.

And the whole room bears an unforgettable stench.

beer. Smoke.

place is a

at

and then she snaps her mo uth sh ut and forces her

one too many times

move until I stand beside her. I address

nods. “You have no idea.”

in this trashed room. She has

Leah, I can

a one-night bender that tarnished this space. It’s years

time, I think maybe it was some small miracle that Leah came to live with

this way,”

his arm for Leah to precede

next to

a di rty look.

She’s pis sed.

that I’m just going to abandon her. And she’s got to know that even though she is the new

are three pretty major

He opens two heavy oak doors, sliding them apart. He moves across the room to sweep aside the heavy curtains. Light streams in, making all the dust shine like sparkles in the

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