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ASPEN
Lubbock, Texas – May 20th
After our agreement, Ransom told me to get into his car. And I did, which was so unlike me. But if I was going to make this pact with him, I had to allow myself to trust him.
And how glad I was that I did. He took me to his bank and helped me open my own bank account whereupon he immediately deposited fifty thousand dollars. I was soon after rendered speechless when he told me that he would transfer another fifty thousand into it after the baby was born. And there’d be more deposited for each year that I lived at the estate.
If my father were alive, he would’ve told me this was too good to be true and not to do it.
But I was going for it. That money meant I could fully fund all the rest of my schooling. I was set. And on top of that, I would get to
