Chapter 30: Speaking From The Heart

I had no choice but to tuck the check away. To be honest, I kept feeling that Maggie was pitying me. When she had caught me and Stephanie together, I had laid everything out from start to finish: my mess with Stephanie, Leila, and Sullivan, and my own background.  Maybe because I had come from nothing, Maggie had decided not to dig into the little "practice run" Leila and I pulled when we scammed Sullivan. Maybe for the same reason, she had again shoved into my hands the check she had wrung...