Title: For the Best
Author: LJ Scar
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0 stars (4)
EXCERPT:
“Why did you take the fall for me?” Tanner stammered.
“Because I was the one who reaped the profits from the pills. Plus I have nothing to lose. You do.” He had no clue what it had taken for me to survive this long. “Mom’s savings was depleted, what little money I had saved was used up fast, Dad didn’t provide a penny. Since she died, I’ve written cold checks and lived off a dead woman’s credit cards. It finally caught up to me, I’m just happy I’m not going to jail. The least of my concerns is that some uptight school administrator thinks I was pushing.”
He gestured. “What about all this?”
I shrugged, “You mean the house? I haven’t paid the mortgage in months. Plus, as of today the utilities have been cut off.” I sighed. “I guess it was for the best.”
“Hanna, I….” Tanner’s voice faltered as he rubbed his hands over his face. He walked over to his bed, pulled out a sock stuffed to the max from the back of his nightstand. He reached inside and extracted a huge, crumpled wad of cash. “This is a grand. Put it toward the car.”
An apology would never come. The money was as close as he’d get. I pushed it away. “No, you keep that.” I refused to take the money though it was mine. Tanner didn’t know that, he also didn’t know I knew how he got it.