The Daughter I Lost to Greed

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looking me up and down in a

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became one of them, maybe I' d b

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voice dangerously calm

ust thought... it would

w of uneven teeth. "Heard you

was

out,"

linked.

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nished. "Hey, no ne

dare come back here trying to set me up or ask for money

d to cry. "

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against it, shaking with rag

y had Emily. Now they

new number. I only answered becau

was sickly sweet. "We need

hing to talk a

house is too big for just you. You should sell it and give them the proceeds. Or, you kn

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, I called