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“When I see a Little girl not taking care of herself, I will step in,” Xavier stated.

“I have a Daddy!” she screeched, holding up her free hand.

They stopped moving.

“And does he know you are here?” Deccan asked.

She shook her head. “My brother didn’t want anyone to know about the debt and I pinky promised. Well, he doesn’t do pinky promises so it was just a promise to him, but,” she groaned. “But to me, it was a pinky promise. And I got with my Daddy after everything.”

Xavier shook his head.

“I’m fine,” she whispered.

“You are not. Where is your Daddy?” Deccan asked.

“Out of state right now. Will be back in a couple of days, I believe. I hope,” she mumbled.

Sammi wanted Daddy to be back to take care of her more than anything. She wasn’t doing a good job of it. Was he going to have to go lots of places and leave her one her own? That wasn’t going to be a good idea if he did.

“Don’t like it,” Xavier growled.

“I’m okay. I just wanted to know how much my brother still owed and how long we had to pay it off,” she rushed out, trying to change the subject.

“You’ve been good with your payments, so I can give you a couple more months,” Deccan said. “As long as you and your brother are still consistently both making payments.”

“Going to go talk to your brother about it,” Xavier spoke.

“Don’t hurt him!” she yelled. “Please, don’t hurt him.”

Xavier eyed her for several seconds Sammi bit down on the inside of her cheek as pain slashed across her stomach like a knife being dragged against it.

“Just give him a warning,” Deccan grunted before turning back to her. “Don’t sell your house if you don’t want to.”

She was going to need to think about that. If she could sell the house and put a lot of the money toward the debt, she was going to. She didn’t want the debt looming over her head for much longer. It was exhausting having it constantly in the back of her mind.

“Can I call your Daddy?” Xavier asked.

“Nope, I’m really okay,” she rushed out. “I’m going to go home and rest now.”

“I don’t know if I like that,” Xavier pointed out. “Will you be alone, or will you have someone with you?”

“I can get my brother to come and stay with me,” she suggested.

Was she going to do that? Absolutely not. She didn’t need to hear him complain about things right now, not when she wasn’t feeling good. She also didn’t need him asking so many questions while she wasn’t well because she was going to snap at him which wouldn’t be a good things to do. No one wants to get on his bad side and become an enemy.

“Text your brother and get him to meet you at your house,” Deccan commanded.

She nodded and got her phone out of her bag, pretending to send a message to her brother. They didn’t need to know that she wasn’t actually texting him.

“I did it,” she lied as she looked up at them.

“Good.” Xavier nodded.

They both eyed her as she stood in her spot. What were they waiting for?

“Are you okay?” Xavier asked.

“Oh, sorry, I thought I needed to be dismissed or something,” she rambled, looking down at her feet. “I’ll go now.”

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