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Noah added quietly, “He’s the Director of our program. He found us by our last name.” My mind reeled. “What… what terms?” I asked, my voice barely a whisper. Liam’s words sent a chill down my spine. “He told us that unless you go to his office and agree, he’ll make sure we’re expelled. That we won’t get into any college.”
Everything I had worked for, every sleepless night, every sacrifice, felt like it was crumbling. The boys looked at me with a mixture of fear and disgust, and I realized this was more than a confrontation — it was a calculated attempt to control us, decades after abandoning his family. Evan, the man who had promised love and disappeared, now wielded power over our lives, and the stakes were impossibly high.