The General and the Horse-Lord by Black Sarah

Author:Black, Sarah [Black, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2013-04-03T16:00:00+00:00

BILLY lay down on Kim’s bed after the dean left, and John pulled up a straight chair, sat next to the bed reading a book until the boy fell asleep. A freshman. Eighteen? Seventeen? He wanted more than anything to pull out the phone directory and call Cheyenne, Wyoming, and bring a little cowboy justice down on Brian Walker’s ass.

He’d need to have that conversation very carefully with Billy and Kim. Kim called about four to report he couldn’t get anyone to cover his shift at Ho Ho’s, so he’d have to work. John told him he’d stay at home with Billy, and handed the phone over to Billy when he was done.

“We’ll talk when I get home, okay?” Kim sounded rushed and a little overwhelmed when he got the phone back, so John assumed Billy had told him about talking to Dean Fox. After Billy fell asleep, John propped the door to the garage open and sent Gabriel an email, telling him what had happened. Gabriel emailed back about an hour later, saying he’d be home by six, and Martha had given them a tentative okay to the tutoring.

John loved the way that sounded: I’ll be home by six. He had spent more of his adult life than he could have imagined, when he was eighteen and a freshman in college, listening to the echoes of his footsteps walking down the hall of an empty house, to sleep alone in an empty bed.

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