“It sounded absolutely ridiculous, but it was true. Chuck Pearson was the master of getting into all sorts of fucked-up situations and expecting his family to bail him out. He’d been to prison more times than he’d been to the dentist. He had more mug shots than I had yearbook photos. Gran said he wasn’t always like this, that he’d been a different person before my mom died, but I was still in diapers when that happened, so this was the only version of him that I knew. I hadn’t even known tha...t the mob still existed. I mean, I knew it was around once, but I thought it’d gone the way of the dodo bird. And then one day in June, Chuck had left a series of frantic messages on my phone, ranting about how he needed $100,000. I’d dismissed it at first, since it was an impossibly high number and he sounded drunk, as usual. But then I got a call about Gran being in the hospital after being attacked and I drained my bank account to hop on the first flight to my hometown.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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