Chapter 27: LYON

"Kat, why did you tell that kid he can go up to her room?" I've asked her that shit twice already and she refused to answer me both times, like she thinks I'm playing around with this shit.

"Colton, I told you it's fine. I trust my daughter and Todd's a good kid. Now how about you tell me what happened at the principal's office."

I hadn't even given any thought to that shit since coming home. Not after seeing what the boy did in the schoolyard. Before I asked him I pretty much guessed who the ox was that he'd taken down, he could only be the kid that had messed with my daughter, but how did he know?

That's all I could think about as I rode home behind them. If Caitlin was telling him shit that she wasn't sharing with me that shit would've pissed me off. But I believe him when he says she wasn't the one. The boy has never lied to me before and I've checked his shit on more than one occasion.

Hearing him say it helped untie the knots in my gut I got when I thoug