{"id":1165,"date":"2026-01-03T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/broken-promise-01-broken-promise-barclay-linwood\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:16:35","slug":"broken-promise-01-broken-promise-barclay-linwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/broken-promise-01-broken-promise-barclay-linwood\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Promise 01 – Broken Promise – Barclay, Linwood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A<\/span><\/span> couple of hours before all hell broke loose, I was in bed, awake since five, pondering the circumstances that had returned me, at the age of forty-one, to my childhood home.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t that the room was exactly the same as when I\u2019d moved out almost twenty years ago. The Ferrari poster no longer hung over the blue-striped wallpaper, and the kit I built of the starship Enterprise<\/span>\u2014hardened amberlike droplets of glue visible on the hull\u2014no longer sat on the dresser. But it was the same dresser. And it was the same wallpaper. And this was the same single bed.<\/p>\n

Sure, I\u2019d spent the night in here a few times over the years, as a visitor. But to be back here as a resident? To be living<\/span> here? With my parents, and my son, Ethan?<\/p>\n

God, what a fucking state of affairs. How had it come to this?<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t know the answer to that question. It was complicated, but I knew.<\/p>\n

The descent had begun five years ago, after my wife, Jan, passed away. A sad story, and not one worth rehashing here. After half a decade, there were things I\u2019d had no choice but to put behind me. I\u2019d grown into my role of single father. I was raising Ethan, nine years old now, on my own. I\u2019m not saying that made me a hero. I\u2019m just trying to explain how things unfolded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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