That night, I wondered where he could be that he would have gone off his structured schedule, and then I told myself I didn’t have a right to know. He lived a neat life where everything had a place, and he wouldn’t mess it up with a contract he didn’t know anything about. Unless I pushed for it. “Everything’s going to be changing anyway. Let’s leave the past in the past,” Mitchell summed up. I sighed. I wanted that too. I didn’t want Dex to know why I’d given him up. My father had squandered so much of our money, and I’d never been strong enough to tell him how much that hurt, that he needed
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