Chapter 67 A Life Traded Away

Liam's face went pale.

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Getting the money was one thing. Being asked to cough it back. up? That was worse than a death sentence.

Celeste, always the bolder of the two, jumped in. "You've lost your mind," she snapped. "You were a kid. Where would you get that kind of money at sixteen?"

Alistair looked at her coolly and said, every word clear and deliberate, "Where do you think it came from? You sold me."

He let the word hang.

"Sold" wasn't metaphorical. He meant it. Every day he'd spent working himself into the ground for Rebecca. That was the price.

And they'd taken it.

Across the gathering crowd, murmurs started rising.

"What do you mean, sold'?"

"Did I hear that right? Two million? Alistair dropped out because of

that?"

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"Wait, wasn't that around the same time they upgraded to a new

house and sent that Caleb kid abroad?"

"Oh hell," someone muttered. "I remember wondering how Liam

with so much cash. Brand-new place,

tell me

his own kid," someone else

wedding venue, the gossip

spoke up, "So that's

People leaned in.

good social skills. He

buddy who went to high school in New York- same year

friend to keep an eye on Alistair, bragging a little that they had gone to

class next door. Top student. Sharp, quiet,

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had made the groom genuinely happy to

close, but Alistair had helped him through school

always hoped Alistair would go

called and said Alistair had dropped out. His

in town said Alistair gave

love.

when they were young. Even someone like Alistair

straight-A kids

the screw-ups turned

was weird

it was the collective itch of an audience desperate to finish a half-spilled story, but the groom

that guy from school-Alistair Harlow? You still

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the call

the line

of two thousand

had been top ten in the entire grade before

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