CHAPTER 6
GALEN
Around the age of six, Galen realized his mère had another family. She took care of them and looked after them and called their little girl “princess,” and stayed with them every school night. The other family got most of her time. Weekends, Easter, and Christmas to the day before New Year’s Eve belonged to him.
He used to get New Year’s Eve too. But then the other family’s little princess cried because his mother wasn’t there for her birthday, so that day started going to them too.
When it came down to him and his mother’s other family, the other family came first, every time.
Galen wasn’t sure how much his mother got paid to be some other family’s mother, but according to his godmother, Cherise, it wasn’t enough.
But Galen was satisfied. His mother’s job made it so
