Chapter Twenty-Eight-Patch

Delaney walked out of the house, letting the door slam behind her with a loud thud. Patch screwed his eyes closed and fought his instinct to kick both Gab and Daz out of the house.

First, it was stupid for Gab to tell Daz everything they knew about Dillon. After his episode downtown, he couldn't pinpoint the reason Gabriel would do that.

Second, he wanted to spend time with Delaney. Let her get drunk in a safe environment, rather than a bar downtown so some douchebag could pry on her. She deserved a drunken night, didn't she? After her dad and brother both kicked her out?

Patch imagined they thought it was teaching her a lesson. He understood their fear of her getting pregnant and ending up a stay-at-home mom with a dude that they thought had no future.

But it was Patch.

The boy they'd picked up at his house because his mother hadn't fed him in a week. The boy that beat-up multiple other boys because Lucas hadn't hit his growth spurt yet in eighth grade.

It hurt. Whether he wan