Lyon – Chapter 139
“Catalina what’re you doing?”
“Oh nothing.” I found her puttering away in the corner of my workshop in the basement. The same space she’d conned me out of a few weeks ago when she was spilling state secrets. I’d been sidetracked by a phone call on my way to search her out half an hour ago and all but forgotten. “Why does your ‘oh nothing’ smell like sulfur?”
“It’s nothing daddy, just a little experiment.”
” I’m finding a convent for her
ck.
om knew what the hell she was up to in my basement.
called me a brat.”
aded back up the stairs for his lil a*s. He knows
na said.”
t don’t sound too good.
y term as the Dr. Evil grin.
was she making over there anyway?
ooking for her mom. I passed Aiden on the way and pulled
might run my a*s but the boys get no play.
kid, I think she’s making up some kinda witch’s brew for you.”
that I lost my hair.”
’s the breaks son.” He followed me
?” I think everyone was scared of my Catalina, I can’t say
down.”
”
ut it, now you’ll remember next time
he’s always” He caught that look again and piped the f**k down. “No excuse
h it was stupid.
“No.”
with a puppy?”
she gonna do with i
know. Our family dog was too big for her to f**k with thank f**k, but a puppy,
I said anything about her badass kids she got pissed. “I wish you’d stop saying that.”
, or she’ll be doing fifteen to life in the near future. Do you know what she’s doing right now as we speak?”
ool project, why?”
s were all pretty manageable but that one? F**k me; it was like doing penance or some shit. “Well did you stop her?” Shit.
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ing you, he’s on the warpath.” I waited until
o me I know just h
thinks, but it never happens quite the way she plans. And why after all these years do I still follow? Because I’m holding
e not better. Every year he finds some new way to torture me, and the kids and curtail our freedoms to the point that going to t
much Colt tries to put it off will be in the next few years, there’s going to be hell to pay.
ever it is that you’ve got planned soon, Thanksgiving is in a few days and before you know it it’ll be Xmas and the kids need an answer soo
ems to think that I’m such a dunce that I don’t know about teenagers and that somehow I’m going to let my daughter run wild.
my daughter has a good head on her shoulders. He doesn’t know we’ve had the talk because he’d have a conniption if he ever found out that I mentioned the word s*x to his preci
hat the f**k are you
ave you that idea?” I hurried and hung up the phone.
“Yes.”
derstanding, that would be good for a chan
ked at you cross eyed for days, I don’t think they’re gonna buy your excuses this time.”
’re doing, you’re making me tired.”
ound shit you and mom are always doing. No wonder dad hits the pipe as much as he does, it’s his escape. Well you’re not turning me into a f*****g pothead, it’s going to be your a*s every time.
t into his head to get things out of me. He’s been on high alert since the last family dinner, and like I’d told Elena we had to move soon if we were gonna get Caitie her last Xmas dinner
dy I
cut himself off as he loo
t so effortlessly too.
so you gonna get me my stuff?”
it?”
ust stuff for school.”
piece of paper she held out to him like it was going to bite him before ta
o be good.
ject.”
to turn this one into a criminal?”
n a mix-up I’ll handle it, don
rying to get rid of me are you,
on.”
d something as our girl walked out the room. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with this man, he’s go