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

Don't tell me he

kid," someone else finished

wedding venue, the

up, "So that's why Alistair dropped

People leaned in.

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

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

he'd asked his friend to keep an eye on Alistair, bragging a little that they had gone

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

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the groom genuinely happy to

been close, but Alistair had helped him through school by

He'd always hoped Alistair would

called and said

adults in town said

love.

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

the straight-A kids

the screw-ups turned it

was weird like

desperate to finish a half-spilled story,

from school-Alistair

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the

came through the line stunned the

of two thousand

had been top ten in the entire grade before

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