Damaged by Kim Pritekel

Author:Kim Pritekel [Pritekel, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Nora turned onto her father’s street and into his driveway. She was surprised to see Andrew’s Mercedes parked there and then outright panicked to see the two men near blows on the front porch.

“Shit,” she said, gunning her car and squealing to the curb. She barely got the key out of the ignition before she ran from the car, not even bothering to shut the door. Andrew was pinned to the outside wall of the house by her father. “Dad!”

“He’s my son, damn it!”

“Yeah, well then maybe you should try being a father!” Larry, Sr. shouted.

“Stop! Dad, stop this. Stop it.” Using all her strength and body weight, she shoved her father away from Andrew. “Stop.” A hand on the chest of each man, she glared at them both. “What the holy hell is going on here?”

“I’m here to get my son,” Andrew said through gritted teeth, his normally beautiful blue eyes electric.

“Yeah, well if you’d been half a father, my daughter wouldn’t have sent him home with me, would she?” Larry, Sr. growled.

Truly afraid, as she could feel the hatred streaming between her father and brother-in-law, she turned to Andrew, by far the most levelheaded of the two. “Andy,” she said softly, “please go wait in your car.”

“I’m sorry, Nora,” he said, sparing a glance before returning his glare to the older man. “Not without Tyler.”

“Okay. Then at least stand down. Okay? Please?”

Andrew nodded, even as his jaw muscles bulged. He took a step behind Nora, who turned back to her father.

“Dad.” Her voice was soft but firm. “I came to talk to you, but if you don’t back the fuck off, I will call the cops.”

His steely gaze fell to her. “You wouldn’t.”

“Try me.” To her relief—and surprise—he backed off, glaring at her as he crossed thick arms over his chest.

Pushing past her father, she looked left and right in search of Tyler. She was confused and frightened at the situation but knew how volatile her father could be. She also knew there was a severe hatred between him and Jill’s husband, which she also didn’t understand. It seemed to have started around the time Andrew and Jill married.

“Tyler?”

She glanced into the living room then kitchen only to hear someone groaning in the area her father used as his personal space. Essentially, if anyone had estrogen flowing through their bodies in great quantities, they weren’t welcome. This was only the second or third time she’d ever seen into the room, and something caught her eye.

On the wall behind the bar was the typical shrine to Lawrence Schaeffer, Sr. that they’d all seen their entire lives: framed pictures from his college ball days, from the moment he signed on with the Denver Broncos, Sports Illustrated covers that he dominated in the early 1980s. But, one picture that stood out, among all those of him standing beside sports legends and celebrities, was a picture of him standing with an attractive woman. To her practiced eye, Nora figured from the

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