My Ex Tried To Use My Black Card

us in delays for two years. He would’ve known what we had. He would’ve cleaned up everything before we could get near it.”

“So you used me as bait.”

“No,” Dad said.

I waited.

He rubbed his thumb over the edge of the folder. For the first time all night, he looked seventy.

“I used his ego.”

That was worse and better and I didn’t know where to put it.

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