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Addicted to Roseanne {GL} Mother
Chapter Twenty-Four — MotherElle's POVI read the text four times.Each time it said the same thing. Four words, no punctuation at the end, the kind of sentence that did not need it because the weight was already there.I know about your mother.My first thought was practical. What exactly did he know, and how. My mother was not a public figure. She was a divorced woman with a drinking problem and a loan shark debt in a mid-sized town. Nothing about her was remarkable except the specific shape of her trouble, and that trouble was not in any record Richard Harlan should have access to.Which meant someone told him. Or he had someone who found things out. A man with political and business ties did not dig through people's backgrounds himself. He made a call and someone else dug.My second thought was Roseanne, already in class, not knowing this had landed.I did not go after her. She was in the middle of a school day and this was not something I was going to drop through a text. I went
Addicted to Roseanne {GL} Richard
Chapter Twenty-Three — RichardElle's POVI played the voicemail a second time.Same voice. Same measured tone. No threat in it, no edge, just a man who was used to people returning his calls because not returning them had consequences he did not need to spell out.I sat in the car for a few minutes after. The street was empty and the neighborhood was asleep and I had Richard Harlan's voice sitting in my phone like a live thing.The smart move was to not call back. To sleep on it, talk to Roseanne in the morning, maybe think about whether I needed someone older in my corner before I walked into whatever Richard Harlan considered a conversation. Paul Calvert came to mind. A man who had already called Richard out once today.I did not call back.I drove home, checked the house, found my mother gone to Aunt Karen's the way I had asked. The rooms were quiet and clean in the way they only were when she was not in them. I made toast, stood at the kitchen counter and ate it, and thought thro
Addicted to Roseanne {GL} Recording
Chapter Twenty-Two — RecordingElle's POVI read the text twice.Then I took Roseanne's phone and read it a third time, slower, the way you read something when you are hoping the words will rearrange themselves into something less serious.They did not.Jake had recorded the conversation. The parking lot confrontation, or the call after, or the morning I showed up at his door. One of those three. Maybe more than one. He had been scared and backed into a corner and scared people in corners did things like hit record and wait for a moment to use it.I had walked into every one of those conversations thinking I was the one holding leverage."How much did he play," I said.Roseanne was already typing back to Becca. "She says enough. The part where you mentioned his dad's business partners. The part where you said you'd go to the school and the police.""He cut it strategically.""Obviously." She kept typing. "She says people were calling it blackmail. That you threatened him to protect me
Addicted to Roseanne {GL} patient
Chapter Twenty-One — PatientElle's POVI let it ring.Not because I was scared. Because picking up a call from Vince at ten fifteen on a Monday night without knowing why he was calling was a mistake. You did not walk into a room you had not scoped first. You did not answer a question before you knew what was being asked.Roseanne watched me. She did not say anything.It rang out. Went to voicemail. Thirty seconds later a text came through from the same number.Call me back. Tonight.I read it and put the phone face down on my thigh."He doesn't usually call this late," I said."What does that mean.""It means something changed." I ran through the options. Either he had found out something that made him nervous about waiting until Thursday, or someone had said something to him, or he was just applying pressure to see what moved. Loan sharks worked on fear. Fear made people do stupid things like run or borrow from someone else to cover the first debt. He wanted my mother rattled."He d
Addicted to Roseanne {GL} Ten
Chapter Twenty — TenRoseanne's POVI did not wait for her to promise.I already knew she would not do anything stupid before tonight. Elle did not make reckless moves. She made calculated ones, and the calculation required information she did not have yet. That was the only reason Jake was still untouched.I went home and made it through dinner.My father was tired from travel and my mother had made pasta and kept the conversation neutral, the way she did when she was managing the room. We talked about school, about the weather turning, about my father's trip. Nobody mentioned Jake. Nobody mentioned Elle. The name sat under the table like something we had all agreed not to step on.After dinner my father asked me to sit with him in the study for a minute.I sat. He closed the door and stood by the window with his hands in his pockets, looking out at the dark street. The lamp on his desk was on and it made the room feel smaller and quieter than it was."Thursday still works for you?"
Addicted to Roseanne {GL} Vince
Chapter Nineteen — VinceElle's POVI read my mother's text twice and kept walking.Not because it did not matter. Because standing in the middle of a school hallway staring at my phone was not going to change what it said, and I needed walls around me before I could think straight.I found the bathroom at the end of the science wing, empty third period, and stood at the sink with the tap running and looked at my own face in the mirror. Three words. Vince came by. That was all she had sent and it was enough. Vince did not make house calls to check in. He made house calls to remind you that your house existed and that he knew where it was.I turned the tap off and called her.She picked up on the first ring, which meant she had been waiting."What happened," I said."He knocked on the door this morning." Her voice was lower than usual, the particular quiet she used when she was sober and scared. "Two of his guys waited by the car. He was polite, Elle. That's what scared me."Polite was
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