KateThe moment I ended the call with Mr. Curtis, my nerves were coiled too tightly to sit still. My hands trembled on the steering wheel as I dialed Dawn. If anyone needed to be home right now, it was her.She picked up on the second ring, sounding breathless and annoyingly cheerful.“Mom, can this wait? I’m kinda busy.”My eyebrow shot up. “Busy where?”“The mall,” she said, like it was the most natural thing in the world.I blinked. “The mall? Dawn, with what money? You and I both know you don’t step into a mall unless there’s real cash involved.”She laughed lightly, careless, dripping with entitlement. “Relax. I didn’t touch your card.”“Then whose?” I demanded, my stomach tightening.A beat of silence… then she said it with a wicked little lilt.“Ethan’s. I used his card to take a loan from a loan shark.”My entire body went cold.I pressed a hand to my forehead, breath shuddering out of me. “You did what?”She giggled, as if she hadn’t just lit her entire world on fire. “Mom, c
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