The admission was like lancing an infection. A quick, sharp pain, and then the words spilled out in a flood, with barely a pause for breath. “I screwed up and missed the renewal payment, and it’s lapsed. I found the bill right before the robbery. I guess it got lost in all the shuffle and chaos from the flood and my mom coming back and...I know it’s no excuse. It’s a titanic screw up, especially when people are depending on me for their livelihood. Jessie and Ruby have been all worried since Walgreens opened, and I’ve been telling them everything will be fine, but it’s not fine. I barely made payroll last month. And I kept thinking things would turn around, that I’d find a way to fix it, but it just got worse and worse, and then the flood, and then I couldn’t tell you because you trusted m
