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

so much cash. Brand-new

Don't tell me

his own kid," someone else finished

the gossip was flowing

groom, quiet until now, suddenly spoke up, "So

People leaned in.

had always had good social skills. He wasn't great at

a buddy who went to high

eye on Alistair, bragging a little that they had

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

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groom genuinely happy

never been close, but Alistair had helped him through school

always hoped

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

the adults in town said Alistair

love.

dumb things when they were young. Even someone like Alistair

straight-A kids burned

sometimes 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,

school-Alistair Harlow?

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the

the line stunned

"Top ten out of two thousand

been top ten in the entire

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