Chapter 69: CALLAN

There was a kind of sadness around him that was hard to miss. I wonder why I never noticed it before? I didn’t want to start feeling sorry for this kid. He’s a pain in my ass.

“Spill it kid.”

“It’s my mother, or the woman who gave birth to me anyway. She threw me away, so when I learned that she was so interested in someone else’s kid I decided to get close to that kid. I wasn’t sure what exactly I had planned, I was too angry when I found out the truth, but then I met Gaby and it was kinda hard to hate her.”

“You’ve lost me kid what the fuck are you talking about?”

“Marion, she’s my mother.” I sat back in my chair.

“That can’t be she’d have had to be…

“Fifteen; she was fifteen when she had me and gave me to an aunt to raise.”

“Damn; still, fifteen is kinda young to be a mom and it’s not like she abandoned you or gave you to strangers, you said she gave you to an aunt?”