9781950890996_TXT_eBook by Barton Kathi S

Author:Barton, Kathi S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Dominic was filling out the paperwork for the acquisition for the newest land he was going to turn into a retreat. Few people knew who he was or what the land was being purchased for. He was happy for that, especially with what had happened just last week.

The paperwork had just been handed to him when a man, who no one seemed to know, came into the bank telling them that he was buying up the land for retards. Retards? Christ, he’d hated that label before then, and positively loathed it now. Then the man pulled out a gun and aimed it at him.

“Look, mister, you don’t know what you’re doing. Why would you even care?” The man—he remembered his name now, Edward Colton—said that it wasn’t the land, but the retards being there. “No, it’s not. It’s being used as a retreat for people who can’t get to something like this to give them a good time.”

“So there ain’t no retards out there.” Dominic asked him what he meant by retards. “You know. Them people that have to be wheeled around wheelchairs, drooling all over themselves and making noises that nobody cares to hear. Did you know that they have to be put in diapers even though they’re old, like somebody’s parents are? No, you can’t be putting in a place like that. I don’t even want my family to be associating with them. What if they caught it or something? I’m not going to be having no retards in my family. Not because you think you can just buy up peoples’ land because you have more money than me.”

Dominic turned to glance down at the paperwork that just needed his signature, then looked at the banker. When he nodded and pointed to one of the many plots of land that he was buying, he realized what was really going on here.

“You lost your land to taxes and I purchased it.” Colton nodded, then pushed the gun into his forehead. “You’re not going to be able to kill me, Mr. Colton. Even before you pull that trigger, I’m going to shift and kill you before you can. If you lower the gun, you and I can talk.”

“You going to not buy up my family’s land and not put no retards there? My family has been growing ter-baccy since I was a little boy. I won’t have you taking it from me just so a bunch of dummies can have fun shitting themselves out by the pond there. You’ll stop this right now.” Dominic reached slowly for the gun that was still hard on his forehead. He’d heard that a lot of farmers had lost their homes because the growing of tobacco had been slowed down. “You got yourself a death warrant, you nincompoop? I said that you’re going to stop this, or I’m gonna have to kill you.”

When Colton started to put pressure on the trigger, Dominic saw Charlie. She had simply appeared in the room right behind the man.

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