The Buyer Derek Chose Was Already On A Watchlist

sell it for five hundred?”

“Yeah.”

She laughed once. Miserable. “He told me fifteen hundred.”

Of course he did.

I stood in that kitchen while morning started to gray the windows and the kids stayed upstairs because children always know when adults are trying to keep disaster in one room.

Mom finally said, “Marcus, can you make this stop?”

I looked at her.continue reading …