Chapter 19
MAGGIE
“So you’re telling me, actually telling me, you owe some loan shark thirteen thousand dollars?” Frasier stood over me, looming like he was trying to be the scary big brother. “For one of Bron’s deadbeat boyfriends?”
“Watch it,” Bronwyn snapped.
“They were going to beat her up. Maybe worse.” I curled into the couch, my shoulders near my ears. Out of everyone I knew, Fraze was the last person I thought would berate me for this.
“How are you going to come up with that kind of cash?”
“Bank loan.”
He scoffed. Loudly.
“Look, don’t worry about it. I can handle it.”
“So she keeps saying,” Bronwyn said.
Fraze started to pace in front of me. Bronwyn yawned. It was late, and I had an early shift in the morning.
I stood up. “Seriously.” I put my hand on Fraze’s shoulder an
