Lyon – Chapter 37
Now I’m pissed. Jared was closest to us as usual, so he was the one who tried to stop me.
“Remember the code, bro, you can’t go there.”
“F**k the code, that’s my f*****g woman.” I threw his arm off as the others got up from their seats, but he held me down by the shoulder.
oing paid off.
tter of it.
ons were peeping around the door at all the racket. Angel was using Samantha’s head to pound nails into the floor, or at least that’s wha
ress was grinning from ear to ear. The manager soon came running over to see what the f**k was going on, but before he could say anything the waitress whose name was Pamela spoke up.
d it, she threw water in the customer’s face The customer was
is, your lunch is on the house.” He wrung his hands together probably thinking we were either gonna sue his a*s or tear his place apart.
ggled to her feet.
s for the table.”
ght my friend, sodas and juice.”
l then sodas and juice on the house, Samantha, you’re fired.”
and Jared and Tommy picked Angel up on their shoulders and walked her around the room while she folded her fist and fist pumped the air.
ere you ham.” I reached up and took her down.
ill do you in the bathroom.”
rights. The manager, trying to save face, sent over platters of wings and mozzarella sticks for appetizers, and I got my baby some chicken fingers to munch on until her food came.
wn rather quickly and soon all that could be heard was th
”
at you can and leave the rest baby.”
me.
e show started.
bring her a to go container before she even started to eat.
’ll get you something to eat.”
chunk of meat and put it in the container.
ake me go out of the way, if need be, to find one. No problem, if it’s what she wanted,
th this bunch. I was proud of Katarina for carrying on as if nothing had happened. She just went right back to laughing and joking around with the others like business as usual.
and was more than happy to realize that they genuinely liked her. They weren’t just getting along because she was with me, they loved her because she was mine in every sense of the word, and they could see that, but more than that, they liked
than two hours. Katarina found her homeless guy almost twenty minutes after we left.
him away, Colton, let me do it.”
pe.” I walked her over to the guy who was
was very tentative and respectful, and the old guy looked at her a bit skeptically before reaching his hand out.
s that Katarina had insisted on ordering along with it, his eyes welled up.
this complete stranger like he was a long lost friend.
r, is this your usua
u can find old Cyrus right here on this corner.”
have a place to stay?”
certain time in the morning, and you can’t go back until evening
my girl that you’re a Vietnam vet, and you were once a mechanic.”
with one thing and another the money ran out. Had to get rid of the house to pay for the medical bills, at least it gave her a few extra months, but she passed anyway in the end. I’m just glad she’s not here to go through this with me, this life is ha
.
ere, how about I pay for you to stay there for a week, and I’ll pick
ached to this city,
“Well no son, c
taken my girl here to see her mom, we’re going to swing back here and pick you up. We’ll find you a home in Wa
ose new fan dangled TV shows?”
a shop where we build custom bikes back in Washington. I’m very serious.”
Well I’ll be damned.”
ite the opposite.”
thank you son.”
, thank my Angel
a room, some money for food, and some new clothes, we were back on the road.
a kid in a candy store, and she never stopped nattering away in my ear as we rode the wide-open road of I-5.
n a bike at his age. I’ll have to keep an eye on the two of them.