A Bet to Lose Chapter 1
Zoe did not like her life very much. Heather, her mother, had given birth to her and her little brother Richard just ten months apart, the perfect age for him to be just immature enough to be annoying and just old enough not to be easily dealt with. Their father had to make a choice between his family and heroin when she was just three years old, and he had come down firmly on the side of heroin. And she'd just recently learned, less than half a year ago, that she couldn't really rely...