Chapter 63She yanked the heavy door open, pulled Leo out into the dark, rainy night, and slammed it shut with a loud metallic bang that echoed through the empty garage.Silence filled the freezing space again, heavy and suffocating.Ethan stood on the cold concrete floor, his chest moving up and down in frantic, shallow gasps. Sweat poured down his neck, soaking his dirty collar. His heart hammered against his ribs like a trapped animal.Five thousand dollars.It might as well have been five million.He staggered backward, dropping heavily onto an oil drum. He pressed his face into his rough, dirty palms, a choked, pathetic sob tearing from his throat. Everything was gone. His dignity, his mother's wealth, his position—and now his son was about to be ripped away, too.A soft, wet cough came from behind the stack of old tires.Ethan lifted his head slowly.Beatrice shuffled out from the shadows, her feet dragging against the dirty concrete. She looked twenty years older than she had t
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