Chapter 175
In the early hours of the morning Kent comes through the door to the third floor dressed in his wrinkled clothes from the night before. He exhales a deep breath through his nose as he pulls the door shut behind him and starts downward, his eyes on his feet.
“What were you doing with her in there, dad?”
Kent jumps at the voice, his eyes fastening suddenly on Daniel, who sits at the foot of the third–floor staircase, his back pressed
against the wall. Waiting for him.
Kent says nothing to Daniel, just stands frozen, staring at his son.
Daniel looks exhausted as he slowly shakes his head. Has he
been sitting there all night?
“I saw her when she came out last night, crying. You can’t bullshit
your way past this one, dad.”
Kent’s eyes narrow at his son. What, after years of having no qualms or questions about his choices in women, suddenly he wants to be involved? Suddenly he wants to play the morality
police?
“Go to bed, Daniel,” Kent commands, starting down the
stairs again. “Don’t you have a test or some other bullshit to
concentrate on today?”
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“Dad –” Daniel protests, getting to his feet.
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Kent whirls on his son when Daniel puts a hand on his arm to
stop him. “Stay out of things you don’t understand, Daniel,” Kent orders, taking a step towards his son to glower over him.
“She’s better than this,” Daniel hisses through clenched teeth, holding is ground. “She doesn’t deserve to be treated like trash –
like you treat all of the women who –”
“Shut your mouth, Daniel,” Kent snaps, his voice low with warning, moving so close to his son that Daniel takes an involuntary step back. “You don’t get to say a god damn thing to me about this. She’s mine now.” Kent pauses, giving Daniel a second to process that fact. “Find yourself someone else to defend, and someone else to fuck. Not that you weren’t doing that already.”
Daniel’s mouth falls open as Ķent turns away and continues calmly down the steps. Daníel knew, of course, that his dad found out about Jerome’s secret visit to his room. Whether or not Kent knew it was Jerome was another question. But this was the first time, ever, that his father had ever come even close to acknowledging his secret love life.
And Daniel realizes that Kent probably knows more about Daniel and Jerome than he was letting on. And that Kent is very willing to use it as a weapon if that information carves a path to getting what he wants.
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And what he wants, apparently is Fay.
Daniel clenches his fists as he watches his father’s form
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disappearing into his office. Because Fay is his, not his dad’s – she is the only good thing in this stupid world, the only thing that made Daniel feel at home. And even if he could never be a true husband to her, he still wanted her at his side as his wife. He knew he could make her happy, in the end.
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