Chapter 7

That night, I took Ryan to the hospital.

We had no money, so I knelt down in front of the ER doctor and begged him over and over.

Everyone had their own problems, and nobody owed me a thing.

But I really had nowhere else to turn.

The young doctor took pity on us and paid part of the hospital bill out of his own pocket.

After checking Ryan's eye, he sighed and said, "If that bottle had hit just a little closer, you'd have lost your eye for good."

By the time James showed up in the middle of…