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“Yes.”

“Employer listed here is Garden State Commercial Interiors?”

“Yes.”

“Average gross weekly income approximately thirteen hundred and forty dollars?”

Xay shifted.

“Depending on overtime.”

“Understood.”

Then she looked at me.

“And Ms. —”

She went through my information too.

I wasn’t hiding shit.

Freckles income.

Reported tips.

Everything I’d submitted.

Because again⁠—

I wasn’t broke.

This wasn’t about me needing Xay’s money to keep my lights on.

This was about Collin having two parents.

After the calculations were done, the officer looked over the recommendation.

“Based upon the parties’ incomes, the parenting-time arrangement and the information provided, the recommended current support obligation is one hundred sixty-eight dollars per week.”

Xay’s head turned.

“For one baby?”

I closed my eyes.

Lord.

The officer looked at him.

“Yes, Mr. Lawless.”

“He don’t cost no hundred and sixty-eight dollars every week.”

I slowly turned my head toward him.

“Xay.”

“What?”