Chapter 66: TODD

I can't believe he said it, he actually said it. He'd just made my life so much easier. I'd spent the last part of the evening convincing my girl that I was going to talk him into letting her come with me at the end of summer. Even though I suspected what her mother was up to, seeing the look on her face after that stunt with the car had triggered me.

No way am I going to watch her look like that all summer when it's not even necessary. I knew the danger, had sat in on the meet as my father in law calls it, so I know there are ways and means of getting around it.

It's not like I'd put her life in danger, something her dad should already know by now. He's gonna have to meet me halfway. I'd been laying in bed wide-awake thinking of my approach when I heard Catalina scream. Mancini beat me to the door by a second.

It ripped my guts out to see that little girl like that and the thought of Caitie suffering through anything like it only strengthened my resolve. Now we