"Shit. Sorry," Rue says, feeling like kind of a dick for bringing up Marcus's parents. He's kind of old, so she kind of figured maybe his parents were dead, but not that it happened when he was just a kid. Younger than Gia even. She can't really process what it would have been like if her dad had died when she was seven.

Then something else Marcus says catches her attention.

"What do you mean 'sold'?"