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Twenty Grand.

Author: Ruby_Bloom
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Raelynn.

I've been lying here for hours, staring past the ceiling into nothing, numbness wrapping around me like a second skin. Every time I close my eyes, his voice crawls back—that familiar rasp that once read me bedtime stories before everything rotted and died.

‘ "Well, well, girl. Thought you could disappear on your old man?" ’

The unknown number should have been my first warning. I should have hung up the second I heard him breathe. But some stupid part of me hoped—God, I'm so fucking stupid—that maybe he'd changed. That maybe he cared.

But of course, just like every time other time he made a fool of me. That maybe he'd learned what love was supposed to look like.

Instead, he twisted the knife deeper.

“I need money, girl. Twenty grand by the end of the month, or I'm coming to find you. And trust me, you don't want me digging around your new little life, do you?"

Twenty thousand dollars. Money, I don't have. Money I'll never have.

A door cracks open downstairs; it’s still early,
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