Chapter 86

Her mouth dropped open. “Did your dad know?”

“Oh, yeah. He condoned it. Said it would make me a man.” He wouldn’t tell her about his first time now. He’d been thirteen and trembling when his father had shoved Katie, his then-girlfriend, into his room and announced that he was going out drinking. He’d told Katie to put her pussy to good use and left. She’d wanted to please the asshole. They both had. So they’d fucked.

“He doesn’t sound like a good person or a good father. I pray for you,” Jasper offered.

One-Mile had never been one to ask for divine assistance, but if it brought him any absolution, he’d take it. “Thank you.”

“What happened?”

He hated the way Brea’s voice shook and he wanted to reach out, touch her. He didn’t dare until he got this out and unless she said she wanted his touch again. “The summer before I turned sixteen, I got a girlfriend of my own. Allie was twenty. I’d lied and told her I was her age. Dad saw me out with her the night be