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“There were no bullets in the gun,” I said.
“Didn’t know that at the time,” Dad said. “What if there were?”
I didn’t say anything to that.
“Kid’s fucked up,” Kettle finally said. “There’s a possibility of brain damage.”
I felt my stomach drop.
At the time that I’d been kicking his ass, I hadn’t felt bad in the least.
It was only after I’d seen the damage I’d done to Kristoff, and realized that was exactly what he’d wanted, did I start to feel bad for going so far.
“The kid needs his brain unscrambled,” Kettle said. “Maybe you did that for him.”
I rolled my eyes.
“He walked into this house and pointed a gun at my kid,” Kettle said then. “If you hadn’t have beaten him, I’d have shot him.”
“He had a kid at home,” I said. “I heard him saying that as I was kicking his ass. Not to kill him. He had a kid.”
“That excuses his behavior?” Dad asked. “I heard from Luke that that kid was left alone for what was likely a day, if not more. He’s two. He had no toys. No clothes. Was in a diaper that had been on so long that he has a raging infection. Tell me…does that sound like a man that needs sympathy?”
When he put it that way, no.
“The kid okay?” I asked curiously.
Dad grunted. “Yes. He’s staying with a buddy from the PD for the time being. They need to look into his background before anything else can be done.”
I rubbed my forehead.
“I’m tired.”
Dad locked his hand around my neck and squeezed.
“Go talk to your girl, bud,” he ordered. “She can’t stop staring at you.”
I looked up to find that he was right.
Though Saylor was standing in the middle of a bunch of women, all of them chattering on, her eyes were on me.
I stood up and felt the alcohol immediately and swayed.
Dad steadied me and I said, “Thanks.”
Saylor watched me walking over, her eyes on me every step I took.
Her smile was soft when I finally arrived at the edge of the group.
“Ladies,” I said. “Mind if I steal Saylor for a second?”
Saylor didn’t give them a chance to object.
Only walked to me and threw her arms around my middle.
I turned us so that we were heading in the opposite direction of all the people.
She guided me to a small pond, and before long, I was sitting on the edge of the dock right next to her.
