Madison by Kathi S. Barton

Author:Kathi S. Barton [Barton, Kathi S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: World Castle Publishing, LLC
Published: 2024-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Kyle was enjoying the kid’s room that he’d been in for the last couple of weeks while recuperating at the hospital. He knew that he should have been released a few days ago, but the doc, his bestest friend, had been running more tests on him that required him to stay another day.

Luckily, she told him they’d not found anything but that he needed more protein. He found out that he simply loved boiled eggs with a bit of salt on them. But, she’d told him yesterday, she was running out of reasons to have him stay hidden in the hospital.

“Your father is out of jail now and making trouble again. He and your mother are out scouting around to find you.” He asked her if they were going to go to jail again. “I don’t know that. I’ve been looking into things, and I believe that the rest of the family is as well. So we’ll see.”

He looked at her when she said his name. “I guess I’m going to be coming back to the emergency department to see you again. If he doesn’t kill me first.” Doc Layla said that she wasn’t going to give up that easily. “He’s fit to be tied, you know. I didn’t want to tell you, but he was here last night complaining about how he and Mom have been having to do all my chores. Mostly, I do all the cooking and cleaning, but it’ll be ten times harder when I get back because I don’t think they’ve done a single thing that they tell you they have.”

“A friend of mine was there just yesterday, and I think whatever you think it’s going to look like is about twenty times worse.” He grinned at her, thanking her for the heads up. “You’re so very welcome. But we do have that court hearing in the morning and I told you that all of the Walsh family is going to be there for you. And we’ve been collecting evidence about how they treated you, too. Did you know that he’s not even your biological father and that he’s never married your mother? Not that it matters all that much, but she’s living in subsidized housing and claiming that she lives there with you and a sister. Did you have a sister at any time? Wayne has lived there since she moved in.”

“I knew that he wasn’t my real dad. He told me that every day when I didn’t do something that he told me to. But no, no sister that I’m aware of. Not that they’d tell me anything. Some days, it was when he had me in the backyard picking up leaves as they fell out of the tree one at a time.” Doc Layla pulled him into her lap and held him there. “I don’t know that anyone has ever hugged me. Not in all my life.”

“I’m so sorry, Kyle. So very sorry indeed.” Kyle let her hold him. It was kind of nice to be held and not held down, and he told her that.

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