Chapter 37

Ebony's POV

“I need you to call Reed.” Tea said, holding her phone out in front of me.

My eyes dipped to the device. It was a few years old and had seen better days, but Tea was kind of a cheapskate when it came to things like that. I knew she worked her ass off just to afford to eat, and I felt for her…

But only a little.

We’d both been raised in similar situations: with single moms struggling to pay the bills. But where her mom struggled because she was a teacher and they didn’t make shit, my mom had struggled because she’d been sick for years.

She managed to work enough to keep her job, even in the worst of times, and her job provided good enough insurance to pay most of her medical bills. And when she passed away a few weeks before my high school graduation, I’d inherited the home she had paid off before I was even born.

Even after paying off the rest of the medical bills, the house sale provided me with more than enough to get through college