Two Minutes Dead, One-Eyed Barnaby Alive: When Family Love Becomes a Bill

whispered.

“Then explain it,” I said.

Chloe wiped her cheeks hard, smearing mascara that hadn’t even been applied yet.

“Everyone else’s dad did it,” she said. “Everyone else gets the big wedding. Everyone else gets the vineyard, the lights, the… the dream. If I don’t, I look—” Her voice cracked. “I look like I wasn’t worth it.”

There it was.

Not greed.

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