The Neglected Daughter's Last Stand

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rushing to Molly' s side. "Sh

sed the room in two strides. The slap was so ha

to my face. "It' s been nothing but trouble since the day we to

it. I ducked, but it glanced off my temple, opening a cut. Warm blood

k a step toward me, pulling a crumpled hundred

hed the bill from his hand, her

ney into her own pocket. "You can't enable

rban sidewalk. I used the last of my own money, seventy-three dollars I' d earned waiting tables at a diner, to check into a che