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

came up with so much cash. Brand-new

tell me he

kid," someone else

wedding venue, the

up, "So that's why Alistair dropped

People leaned in.

skills. He wasn't great at school, but he knew

even had a buddy who went to high school in

asked his friend to keep an eye on Alistair, bragging

in the class next door. Top student. Sharp, quiet, impressive. Nothing like the spoiled rich kids who'd bought

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made the groom genuinely happy to hear Alistair

close, but Alistair had helped him through school by letting

hoped Alistair would go

called and said Alistair had dropped out. His homeroom teacher had been

town said Alistair gave it all

love.

had done dumb things when they were young. Even someone like

straight-A kids burned

the screw-ups turned

weird like

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

from school-Alistair Harlow? You still

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put the

came through the line

out of two thousand students?

been top ten in the entire grade before he

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