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My heart raced as I looked between the two of them, and I was afraid that Harlan would go berserk again and beat Jace to a pulp. Jace was still recovering from last time. I didn’t want him to get hurt again. I needed to do something, but what could I do?
“You know what people in this town are going to fucking say to me about that? How shitty of a father I’ll look like to them?”
“You are a shitty father,” Jace said.
Harlan slapped him hard across the jaw. “We’re going to clean this fucking mess up.”
Mom cleared her throat and tried desperately to pull Harlan away from Jace. “It’s okay, sweetheart. I already made an appointment for Friday at noon. We’ll have to get Allie and Jace out of school for the day. Nobody will find out about it.”
“You’d better hope nobody finds out about it,” Harlan threatened, glaring at Jace.
I stared at Mom, pleading with my eyes to her to talk to me alone in the other room, but she gave me a sharp shake of her head and ushered Harlan out of the room and to their bedroom. When they disappeared down the hall, I collapsed next to Jace and took his face in my hands, rubbing his reddening cheek, where Harlan had struck him.
“It’s going to be okay, Jace,” I whispered, fearing for my life. “We’ll get him.”
