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CHAPTER 127: My Father's Business

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By some miracle, I make it to the weekend without picking a full-blown fight with Knox.

The weird part is, I’m not even sure why I’m mad.

It’s not Knox's fault that some ex-military guy he used to be friends with went full psycho and dragged us into his vendetta. The entire affair had me typing up a resignation letter at my desk in the middle of a workday, claiming terminal illness.

Terminal. Illness.

I even picked Fiji. Said I wanted to spend the rest of my short life soaking in blue lagoons and drinking out of coconuts.

And yes, I typed it on their printer. On company time. Used their office paper. Their ink.

That job had been the only stable thing in my life for six years. Same desk. Same chair. Same perfect view of Harper’s resting bitch face through the glass wall of her office, directly across from mine. I’ve been here through it all—birthdays, breakdowns, Finn’s many heartbreak-induced crash outs courtesy of Delilah, nights that ended with me passed out under my desk in t
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    By some miracle, I make it to the weekend without picking a full-blown fight with Knox. The weird part is, I’m not even sure why I’m mad. It’s not Knox's fault that some ex-military guy he used to be friends with went full psycho and dragged us into his vendetta. The entire affair had me typing up a resignation letter at my desk in the middle of a workday, claiming terminal illness. Terminal. Illness. I even picked Fiji. Said I wanted to spend the rest of my short life soaking in blue lagoons and drinking out of coconuts. And yes, I typed it on their printer. On company time. Used their office paper. Their ink. That job had been the only stable thing in my life for six years. Same desk. Same chair. Same perfect view of Harper’s resting bitch face through the glass wall of her office, directly across from mine. I’ve been here through it all—birthdays, breakdowns, Finn’s many heartbreak-induced crash outs courtesy of Delilah, nights that ended with me passed out under my desk in t

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