Lyon – Chapter 147

When I wasn’t dealing with Kat and her kids, or killing myself at the shop trying to meet quota, I was thinking up ways to f**k the Porters. It wasn’t my style to let things wait this long and it was killing me, but things were finally moving thank f**k.

Old man Mallory had come through with some shit this afternoon that I felt I needed to share with the guys from the meet, but I had to wait until the coast was clear before I could start that conference call. The people in my house, especially the ones that were missing a chromosome are nosy as f**k, there’s no telling who’s listening at the door and shit.

“Hey Caitie Bear.” I caught her at a rare moment when her damn shadow wasn’t around, and barely stopped myself from asking where he was. That’s some dangerous shit in itself. I’ve grown so accustomed to seeing those two together, that although I wouldn’t dare mention it to my wife, it feels off when I don’t see him sitting in the little alcove off my kitchen doing homework with her.

he smiled bright and clos

sible to love this damn much, doesn’t seem like a body could hold that much emotion.

e years. “Come again.” I didn’t want to freak out because around here that’s grounds for hilarity. F*****g Kat and her kids always find something to laugh at my a*s about.

let me take them early. I passed daddy isn’t that great?”

ck is going on in these schools? I went to school with motherfuckers that didn’t graduate until they were staring nineteen in the a*s. Granted they were dumb as a stump but what the f**k? Because my kid was smart I had to lose her a couple years early? We’ll just see about this shit.

prattled on about some shit some girl at school had said and what some other one had done, and then of course I had to hear about Todd and some funny thing he’d done or said and my eyes started to cross.

s somewhere. I knew this because the little f***s were trying to jump through the flooring up there with their shit. I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of Kat the sneak. “You finish your homework baby, I’m gonna go look for your mother.”

er for a few seconds more, wishing like f**k that these moments weren’t coming to an end anytime soon. F*****g kid owns my a*s.

home, here.” She passed the kid off, pecked me on the lips and tried to escape.

his, you can’t”

away from us.”

, them I can handle. But once a kid heads off to college that’s it, they ne

everything.

ta sign anything to make that shit happen?”

him close. “How was he today, still colicky?”

ehow my little contributions never seem to be as much as hers. She does it all, my little wonder woman; pain in the a*s.

t me and grinned. I smirked at her because we both knew I got about just as much of that shit as he does. “I can vouch for that, I think I put on a coupla pounds myself.”

night when I watched her sleep, she wasn’t restless so I’m thinking we’re good.

d f***s who took after their mother. No one had broken any bones lately and the school wasn’t calling us to complain about some shit that had nothing to do with me.

re’s a call for a parent teacher’s meet. The f**k, I live there?