Alle Kapitel von Drengr: Kapitel 101 – Kapitel 110

We walked inside the hotel and headed to the restaurant. We sat down at a table and I looked at the menu as Malachi’s phone rang. He smiled. It could only be Jessica.“I’m at the hotel with Levi,” he said in answer to her question of where he was.“Nice going out to lunch without me,” she said but her voice was friendly.“I’ll make it up to you tonight,” he said and I shook my head.“Like you had a choice?” she said. “I want pizza.”“Only pizza?” Malachi asked and I started to laugh as Kiran walked toward us.“Hey,” Kiran said as he slapped my back and sat down next to me and looked at Malachi.“Dude, seriously, is Levi listening to us right now? I’m not even answering that one,” she said and ended the call. Malachi laughed as he put his phone back in his jacket pocket.“Dad,” Kiran said as he nodded to a waiter to come over to our table.“I told you,” Malachi said and I smiled.“The special, three of them and bring the bottle of Scotch,” Kiran said to the waiter.“Yes, Mr. Sinclair,”

“Do you feel better now?” Malachi asked me and I chuckled.“Maybe she won’t yell at me as much,” I said and he smiled.“Don’t count on it. Jessica still threatens me on a weekly basis,” he said.“Nicely done, badass,” Jessica said and sat down on Malachi’s lap and kissed him.“Why badass?” I asked her once she’d stopped making me feel uncomfortable.“Dude, seriously, you’re a badass, it’s a compliment,” she said and stood up. She joined Adara and Charlotte at another table and Malachi shifted to cover his arousal.“Don’t even say anything,” Malachi said and we laughed.“I wasn’t going to,” I said.His face turned serious. “Have you given any thought to our discussion? It’s been a month.”“I can’t leave Charlotte now. Maybe after the baby’s born. She’ll kill me if I tell her I’m traveling now,” I said.“I can wait,” Malachi said. “Are you really moving out tonight?”“I’ve already moved out, Charlotte just doesn’t know it yet,” I said.“What would you have done if she had said no to you

I had to smile as I walked back to my car. I was about to start the car when I saw the man and Kevin walk outside to his car. He had Kevin by the arm and he was pulling him along as he walked. I watched him through narrowed eyes as they neared the car and he hit Kevin behind his head so hard that the boy fell forward onto the tarred parking lot.I was out of my car and walking toward him before I even realized it. I helped Kevin to his feet and walked up to his father. I pushed him against his car and looked deep into his eyes as I pressed my arm across his chest.“Do you want to know what it feels like to be slapped that hard?” I asked him.“Don’t tell me how to treat my kid,” he said. I pressed harder against his chest and I knew I was hurting him.“If you lay one finger on him, I’ll know and I’ll hurt you,” I said and let go of him.I started walking back to my car and he followed behind me. “Who the hell do you think you are to threaten me?”I turned around and I must have had tha

“Do you think it’ll ever stop?” Bo asked me.“Do you want it to? The real question is, can we ever stop being this way?” I said.“People rarely get it,” he said and I nodded. That was the problem. People didn’t get people like us and I wondered how long I would be home before the wolves started howling at me again. Maybe if I committed myself to the Council, the howling would stop.Did I want the howling to stop? I couldn’t answer that question. I had to make the howling stop though, or I’d lose Charlotte for good and I couldn’t let that happen. She and William were two of the best things in my life I never knew I needed or wanted. Somehow I just had to do it.I looked at my watch and gathered the empty containers of food and threw them away. I took the Jericho from the table and holstered it. I would only need one if things turned south but secretly I hoped that I wouldn’t have to kill Jack. I loved him. He’d been my only family for most of my life.“Once again, Bo, your company and

I looked at the video feed the system had sent me as the man breached the yard and picked the lock at the back door. He wore a mask but I would find him and I would go alone because it would be brutal. I went upstairs and opened William’s door.“I’m sorry,” I said and sat down on his bed. He was lying on his side and he looked at me.“I tried to protect her but he was stronger than me,” William said and the guilt just wouldn’t stop. He sat upright and I pulled him closer to me and hugged him.“You did good, kid. Did he hurt you?” I asked him and he started to cry.“I couldn’t help her,” he said as he continued to cry on my shoulder.“This isn’t your fault, William, it’s mine. I should have been here,” I said.I sat with him until he stopped crying and went to face Charlotte. I stood in the doorway of the bedroom and looked at her as she slept. Her left arm was in a cast, her eye was swollen shut and she had bruises on her arm and shoulder. Those were the marks and bruises I could see.