![]() ![]() But he’d been there for her when it truly counted. ![]() Louis to Seattle, only to watch him flame out and get traded to a Japanese team less than two years into their stay. ![]() Told Lilli it was alright not to have a service, because “Nobody would come anyway.” Not even him.ĭoug might have been the favored brother, the one she and her mother followed all the way from St. ![]() Doug was the one who’d given her money to pay the crematory. Perhaps purposefully overdosing on painkillers. He’d help her bridge that gap after her mother abandoned her.ĭoug was the one who called her a few months later, to tell her Donna Tucker had died just as she lived, bitterly and drunkenly. But enough to keep her in food and other necessities until her nursing college scholarship kicked in. Her therapist’s words came floating back to her.īut that wasn’t the point. He sent you money, but he didn’t send you a plane ticket to join him in Japan with his young family. If not for the money Doug had sent her, she might not have graduated from high school. Her mother, after seventeen bitter years and 364 resentful days had kicked Lilli out of the house into the Seattle winter the morning of her 18 th birthday, despite the fact that she still had a whole semester left in her senior year. They had sizzling chemistry, and absolutely nothing else.ĭoug was her brother. She’d been hired to keep him company in bed. ![]()
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