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Chapter 76

I was utterly and completely floored into silence. My brain could not process what it was hearing.

Noah picked at his food, seemed unable to decide which of the fourteen forks he ought to use. He was oblivious to this conversation.

“I have to report to the DHS for a drug test tomorrow,” Jackson said in a whisper.

“Good!” his mother exclaimed. “And will you pass?”

“I don’t know,” he admitted.

“You don’t know? You, of all people, ought to know what it is you’re tossing down the hatch every goddamn day. You are, after all, a nurse.”

“I’ve been under a lot of stress!” he exclaimed unhappily.

“And the rest of us aren’t? Oh, really, Jackie, you do bore me with your endless excuses.”

“Why would you call them?” Jackson asked. “What the hell is wrong with you?”