Lyon – Chapter 138

“Hey princess how’re you doing?” Damn she looks so sad.

“I’m fine daddy.”

“You sure, anything you need to talk about?” She shrugged her shoulders and picked at her nail. Shit, just like her mother, talking to her is like pulling teeth.

mber two.

tearing up.

incess cry. “What is it baby? What’s wrong?”

y little and sweet for at least the next thirty years? Why did she need to go getting mixed up with boys and shit?

omething daddy please.”

I find out he’s been doing more than holding her hand on my couch, I’ll bury his a*s in the backyard; lil punk.

other friends, it’s not as bad as all that. What about all those nice girls

hat?”

uble. “What, what’s happened?”

e she thought I’d killed our daughter or some shit. If anyone was i

ughter’s breaking heart and felt like an a*s.

he was in love.

that about? “You scare me kid.” I’m gonna have her mom have another talk with her. She’s probably been listening at doors and shit again.

. I had to tell the a*****e principal if he suspended my kid for being a kid I’d cap his a*s.

n when they put a nosy a*s, inquisitive, troublemaker in a lab? It’s all her mothe

t, but they’re f****d. From the hours of eight to three, Monday to Friday she’s theirs. As long as sh

ith Caitie?” Shit, here come twenty questions.

is mom”

ead a book.”

s. Nosy f**k.

ast parting shot.

.”

ot me. Apart from causing chaos and mayhem, she’s my little snitch. Watergate ain’t got shit on her. “Come ‘ere pumpkin.” Damn, I wonder what this is gonna cost me. I wish the women in my life weren’t so damn snea

er way back to me, but there was no hiding that look in her eye. This kid is going to be on the evening news one day and she won’t be the o

to her room where I knew she was going to fleece me again. At least once a week she cons me out of something. She’s good at what she does. She collects info all week and corners me when she’s ready for a trade. F*****g spooks wil

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to a full house of nosy a*s women. My knee was the least of my worries and I’d told Kat as much when I went back to the shop. Between her and her damn kids, it’s a wonder I hadn’t ran away th

here for Caitlin.”

ater. From the looks of it this one planned to stick around and I wanted no part of it.

moving away.” I’ma kill this old lady swear to f**k.

“She doesn’t have a boyfriend.” I f

e she does, you know Todd.”

hat the hell is wrong with you people?”

ton grow u

ker killed keep talking shit in my house.

e you’re too bull headed to get with the times.”

finished high school and already mom had her married off

do it and then I’d have to listen to her daughter in law the rest of the night with her shit about my behavior.

avorite.”

en to any more of her shit or I’d lose mine.

back there with the boys, you know how he gets when he’s around them. Only o

rying to stick me with the spawn.

in needs all our attention now, just this one time, please.”

he works, how else am I supposed to know what the hell goes down at this little impromptu pa

ell it’s not really an intervention per-se. We just want to make Caitie feel better that’s all.” This shit smacked of Elena and her meddling a*s. I gave her the look that she’s been ignoring all my damn life, fuc

out. Caitlin isn’t suffering from anything that a good grounding won’t cure. I already spoke to her; this boy moving away is not the end of the world. She wants to act like her life is over, six weeks in

before they could beat me over the head with their moral indignation outrage fuckery. I give a f**k. My kid’s been moping around here like someone had died and shit for the past few days. Every time I looked at her she g

ery much, and wasn’t about to do shit even if there was something he could do.

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own or seemed to for the next little while and I hadn’t heard any more about the lil punk and his move. I wasn’t sure what was going on there since he was still sniffing around my kid every damn evening like clockwork, but at least my little girl wa

ns so I was breathing easy again these days. There were no phone calls from the school telling me to come get my kids, and for once it looked like my life was gonna get back on track for the holidays.

t realized I hadn’t caught a glimpse of my little shadow ninja since I came home. If she wasn’t eavesdropping, or banging away at that piano, her pothead of a grandfather gave her to annoy my a*s, then who knows what the f**k.

f the boys and she was fit to be tied, but the baby was fussing so I didn’t really pay attention.”

ead half asleep and left the room almost at a run.