18 - Deal
Summer
My hand was shaking with anger and shame when I ended the call. My biological mom, Carol, needed more funds for her boyfriend, who was an alcoholic. My parents had already paid her for her house with the money I sent them for their savings, and now she wanted more.
“Everything okay?”
I looked at Damon, his gray eyes closed off and I prayed he heard nothing. “Y-yeah, everything is fine,” I forced a smile and looked at the small restaurant. “I thought we were going to talk in private?”
He stared at me for a moment. Without the heels, I reached his shoulders, and I didn’t like that he could look down on me. “Right this way,” he said, turning around, and I followed him.
He is acting weird today.
I needed to ask Emma about him and if he had suffered any injury to hi
