“I sit up at night on my balcony and think of all the times you warned me. E, you used to drill that shit in my head that he was sneaky, and you didn’t trust him. If I had listened, then none of this would have happened. Joie would have been here, my baby would have been alive, and I wouldn’t be working ten times harder to play ball, something that has always been so easy for me. This is something that I know that I have to do.” She walked over toward him, sitting on the edge of the coffee table in front of him. “Jaiden, once you do this… there’s no going back.” He leaned forward. “I know, and
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