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18| The Truth
“Steph, I’ve known you your whole life and I know when something is up. Just tell me. You know you can trust me.”
The tears came so quickly that I couldn’t even try to stop them. “I’m broke.”
I crumbled and my body shook as I cried, “The business is spiraling the drain and I had no other choice than to make a deal with the devil and collaborate with him.”
Isaac brought me into a bear hug and let me drape my legs over his lap as I cried into his jacket.
“Why does it have to be him? Can’t you collaborate with someone else?”
“Not at this point. I’m too far down the rabbit hole by now, I’ve already surrendered to him and he will never let me go now. It’s like he has this leash on me and I have to go everywhere he wants me to go, do everything he tells me to do, and say anything that
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