Free Lyon's Family (The Lyon #5) by Jordan Silver Page B

headphones on listening to music while leafing through a book. Why is this shit happening to me? Why can’t these fucks leave my family alone? I started to go in and ask her to tell me what had happened, but she looked so young, so happy, I didn’t wanna spoil that.
    She’s so damn beautiful, is that why? It had taken days before I stopped seeing that flesh rag every time I looked at my little girl. Now everything that involved her was magnified in my mind. I can’t forget what happened to her mother when she was just a little older than she was now herself, and though I don’t hold anything against Drake, I’ll be fucked if anything like that is gonna happen to my kid. Not on my fucking watch.
    By the time I turned around Kat was upstairs. “Where’s ma?”
    “She had to go what did you say to Caitlin?” She tried looking around me into the room but I backed her up until we reached our room. “Nothing yet, I’m waiting for you to tell me the rest.”
    She started that hand wringing shit and bit into her lip. Usually the lip biting thing would make my dick hard as fuck in no time, and I wasn’t sure she wasn’t doing it to distract me. “Stop that.” I pulled her lip out from between her teeth.
    “The boys thought it would be funny to tease her you know, they um, took her book bag and wouldn’t give it back, things like that, and one of them asked her out and when she said no he said some ugly things to her.”
    “I’m gonna fucking level that school, who was it?”
    “Colton I took care of it, the kid said he was sorry that he hadn’t meant to scare her. He was embarrassed Colt that she turned him down in front of his friends.”
    Is she out her fucking mind? “I don’t give two wet fucks Kat.”
    “Colton shh; Caitlin doesn’t want you to do anything, don’t embarrass her.” She grabbed my shirttail to hold me back from leaving the room.
    “What the fuck are you on Kat? They fuck with my kid and you expect me to do what?”
    “But Colt they’re just kids…”
    “Who waited until the boy left to start their shit with her again, fuck that.”
    “Colt…”
    “Kat, grab the baby and stay up here.”
    “Why, what’re you gonna do?”
    “Nothing for you to worry about peacemaker. Catalina come here.” I yelled out for her not knowing where the little spook was.
    “Yes daddy?” She came bounding into the room three seconds later, which meant she’d been listening at doors again and shit. I walked out of the room with her on my heels.
    “I need you to make me up a batch of some shit.” Her eyes grew big and there was a light in them that I hadn’t seen since I’d seen it in my own when I was a wayward youth. Well fuck; while I’m saving a college fund for the others I’ll be starting a bail fund for this one; I can just see it now. Plus she has some of Kat in her; this whole neighborhood is fucked.
    “What do you want it to do daddy?”
    “What do you mean pumpkin?” she took my hand and started leading me down the hallway.
    “We…l…l do you want a hair remover, a rash, or something more permanet?” She couldn’t even say the word but she sure as fuck knew what it meant.
    “Permanent like how?” I stopped and looked down at her.
    “Tell me first daddy.” What the fuck did I get myself into now?
    “Uh, I don’t want it permanent.”
    “Then you don’t need to know.”
    “What the… KAT.”
    “What is it now?” she came out the room and glared at me.
    “You been watching after this kid?”
    “Of course I have what kinda question is that?”
    “How does she know about making potions and shit that can do permanent damage?”
    “I don’t know, she gets that from you.”
    Everything’s my fucking fault around here; except when they’re dong the right thing, then they’re mommy’s little darlings.
    “Daddy you want me to help or not? I was busy.”
    “Busy doing what, listening in at keyholes? Didn’t I tell you about that shit?”
    “Daddy, I don’t do