With no money, the A-frame’s done for. My parents will find out. They’ll absolutely veto the financing necessary to shore up the place, and that will leave one thing and one thing only: selling it. And then this place will be lost to us. Unless I bite the bullet and take Bennett up on his offer, let him and Parker help me find someone who’ll enter into a civil union only for the money and with no other expectations, a marriage that’s purely transactional. It’s bleak, but it’s the only solution.
