Chapter 77

“You’re going to go home and sleep it off. Then later, when Dad’s back, you’re going to sit down with your wife with them and talk this out like an adult. Sober!… Don’t you dare come into this home and start this shit here… This is our safe haven, Rylanne, and you have no right to bring this kind of shit into it or bully Bree into submission when she runs here for the same kind of support. Some of us depend on the sanity and calm that mom and dad built here… Who the hell do you think you are? Marriage does not equal ownership. She has a right to come here for the same kind of safety the rest of us do, and you should learn some goddam respect for your parents, if not your wife. For all they did for us in bringing us into their home and giving us a chance at better lives. Stop disgracing them and throwing it back in their faces. Grow the fuck up.” Tears bite my eyes when I say this to him, low and steady, the tone severe and strong, and he stops scowling at me and blinks hard before s