A RISK INDEED ; his sleeves veil the goosebumps scattering across his forearms. ❝ she’s got better things to do, ❞ and he shrugs, a noncommittal little thing. ❝ never liked monopoly much, either. ❞ because calling your mother an alcoholic bitch wasn’t as easy as murphy would like it to be, even after years of practice.
‘ better things to do. ’ something sharp sits on the tip of her tongue, & she has to remind herself to maintain professionalism : it isn’t her place to chastise a shitty parent, no matter how tempted she might be on kind of a personal level. ‘ right. that’s — um, good to know. i’ll make sure to bring that up when she gets here. ’ if. if she gets here.