SLOANE

“Hold on. Are you for real? Wasn’t Father paying the money gradually? How then could this suddenly happen?” I finally forced the words out of my mouth.

My mother, who pretty much has no emotions left in her crying to me on the phone, wasn't on my list of what could happen today. But here she was weeping helplessly to me.

And I understood why.

She had no one to call in this state. Fuck, she must have thought of it over and over again because deciding to call me, her least ...