Seventeen
Sedona
The last time Jamison was this broken was when the doctor told him he’d probably never play again. I don’t know what to do. I take one step forward but stop. I tried to hug him when his career ended, and he pushed me away. Looking back on it now, that was the beginning of the end for us.
“I never thought it was their business. No one even asked.” When I got the first check from Jamison, I tore it up and threw it in the trash. By the time the second one came, I realized I’d save it all for Palmer. That if she couldn’t have her daddy, she could have his money.
“And you didn’t think to volunteer the information? Your family shares every time they take a goddamn piss, but not something that might cast me in a better light? That you keep to yourself?” He stands and walks ac
