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Chapter 23
DARREN
Past
“Where’s Bridget?” my mother asks when I join her on the balcony of her villa.
“In one of the cooking classes learning how to make pad thai and curry,” I reply. I sit down next to her to watch the sunset.
“I had a chat with her this afternoon.”
She waits for my reaction, but I don’t provide her one.
“She seems nice.”
Knowing that’s not all she has to say, I wait for her to continue.
She cuts to the chase. “Too nice.”
I don’t say anything, though I happen to agree with her.
“Really. What are you doing with someone like her?” my mother asks.
“You’d prefer I was with Kimberly?”
“No! Well…Kimberly would at least be okay with your triad association.”
“I thought you didn’t want me with the triad anymore?”
“I don’t. Tommy tried to talk me into being okay about you taking your father’s place in counterfeiting. He made it sound like you were going to do it.”
“Is that why you’re here? You want to talk me out of it?”
“Yes! You know you could get up to twenty years?”
“That’s not so bad.”
She makes a face. “I did not spend eighteen years raising you, then sending you off to college so that you can end up in jail. What would happen to Bridget if you went to jail?”
“She’d end up like you, is my guess. A rich widow.”
“With a broken heart. Is that what you want for your girlfriend?”
“She’s not my…we might not even be together in a month.”
“Why are you together now? I thought you were coming stag.”
“I thought it’d be fun to invite Bridget.”
“You should be careful. What if she falls in love with you?”
“She’s too levelheaded to do that.”
“Women are capable of a lot of irrational behavior.”
“Speaking from experience?”
“I thought I was levelheaded.”
