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

tell

his own kid," someone

the gossip was

until now, suddenly spoke up, "So that's why Alistair

People leaned in.

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

a buddy who went to high school

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

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

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made the groom genuinely

helped him through school by letting him copy homework more times than he

always hoped

the SAT, the friend called and said

in town said

love.

most people had done dumb things when they were young. Even someone like Alistair can

the straight-A kids

sometimes the screw-ups

weird

desperate to finish a half-spilled story, but the groom pulled

guy from school-Alistair Harlow? You still

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the call

came through the line

of two thousand students?

in the entire grade

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