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hands for a second so that he felt like he was in his own private space. "You keep saying his assets. But surely they are our assets? They were things that we built together—part of the relationship we shared and the kind of people we wanted to be. The kind of parents we promised ourselves that we would be. We weren't married, but, you know, what was mine was his." Nate felt useless and childish, his face red with his warring emotions.
    "Maybe, Mr. Grace, but the reverse was not true. The house…" Jack looked through a folder in front of him, "… two cars, and some smaller assets are all primarily in his name. They were all used to secure loans, and frankly, his time has run out. He has nowhere to run, no assets left to leverage. I thought it was only fair to give you warning." It was obvious that Jack was struggling with this information; his voice had turned gentler.
    The skin on Nate's face felt hot and the world was beginning to go out of focus, but he braced himself and straightened his spine out so that he looked at least a little dignified.
    "What are you saying?" he asked. He didn't really want to hear an answer. Melting into the seat and disappearing forever would be preferable to knowing, but there was Bailey to think of.
    "Do you know what repossession is?" Jack asked.
    "Yes. I'm twenty-six, not sixteen." Nate's voice adopted a hard edge that he hadn't intended. "I'm sorry. It's just that I never... I never thought that Joshua would gamble like this. I never thought to question Joshua. Because he was so smart and strong and responsible." Nate got up from his seat and began to pace around the office; he needed to move so that he didn't feel so trapped.
    He thought back to that day that he had come to Jack's office the first time. It seemed like a lifetime ago. Nate could remember how safe he had felt sitting next to Joshua, how secure he was in the knowledge that everyone around him knew what they were doing. It had been an unremarkable day until time had turned it into a tragic one.
    Nate's mind was reeling between anger, fear, sadness, and loss. He felt pathetic because he wanted Joshua to swoop in and save the day. The desire to run into Joshua's arms was unbearable. Even after all the things that Joshua had done to jeopardize everything, Nate couldn't help but see him as the solution to the mess that had occurred. He was angry, but he couldn't focus the anger on anything but himself for being so stupid and naïve. He wanted to focus on Joshua's betrayal and process how he felt about it, but all he could do was replay the image of himself signing the remortgage payment.
    The sound of Nate's shoes on the wooden flooring was the only sound in the office. Nate looked over at Jack, who was sitting patiently behind his desk, making some notes on a legal pad. "I'm sorry. I'm going to sit down now. I know that I'm acting like a crazy person."
    "I understand, and you're not acting like a crazy person. And I didn't mean to suggest that you were ignorant. I hate to have to tell you this, but your house is going to be repossessed. All of the paperwork has been drafted up. You have to leave in the next two weeks. You would have had more notice if Joshua had contacted me. I'm surprised you're so in the dark. Some people that work for me came to your house a couple of times in the last month."
    The word repossessed drummed inside of Nate's brain, reverberating around and turning everything else into white noise. Nate reached up and wiped a tear from his cheek. He just couldn't match the Joshua that he had spent half of his life loving with the man who would sacrifice the life that they had built together. He felt like his whole understanding of the world had been ripped away from him and he'd been thrust into a life that he didn't comprehend or want. The gap between the Joshua that Nate had thought he had known and the one who had risked and lost everything felt too awful and vast to think about. How could Joshua do this to