Ryan got sucked back into what she’d said earlier. He’d hardly let himself process the words at first. Now they were reverberating in his head. “Did you mean it?” he asked abruptly. “When you said I don’t try?” That was damning. Ryan didn’t like to think of himself like that. To her credit, Tara didn’t try to pass it off. “You didn’t put yourself in the draft,” she said instead. What did that have to do with it? Ryan frowned and crossed his arms. “If you remember, Mom and Dad encouraged me to go the college route.” What was he supposed to do when his own parents thought he couldn’t cut it?
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