Chapter 98: You Really Don't Understand How the World Works

After walking Nancy Green home, Pierce Jackson didn't get back until five in the morning. He dozed for a little over an hour before his mother, Elena, got up to make breakfast and get Dallas ready for kindergarten. When Pierce woke around eight, he ate a few bites and told them about Rosemary Hardy, who had been hospitalized after a car crash. "Hey, kid, something this serious and you're only telling us now?" Arthur Jackson's face hardened as he scolded him. "We're a family. You… ah…"...