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“AXEL REID, DON’T YOU DARE!” h the front door

“Don’t I dare what, Princess? No way that boy is going near irl Look at hihter!”

“Well, there is no need to scare him to death!” she mocks

My cheeks heat instantly when I see Dane start backing away froo to o up in flames

Poof

Just like that

Not that I should be surprised about it Mom did her best to calm Daddy down, but we should have known better He took one look atlike he does now

So e

“You need to stop this nonsense right now, you big lug, or you’ll be sleeping on the couch,” Mom fumes

“Like hell I will, woman!” Daddy roars at my mom

I watch her face get sharp He stops long enough to sling one of—that’s right, ONE of—the rifles he’s carrying over his shoulder, where it lands next to the other one he already has over his other shoulder

Only h to deal with hi with a penis”rifles now hanging by their leather straps over each shoulder He has two handguns strapped to each thick thigh, two on each side of his belt, and various knives along the way His shirt, which he thinks is hilarious to hen I attesand eat thee boys—but Dane doesn’t

Mo in the front doorway and blocking his path, where Dane is still slowly retreating She’s been dealing with this way before they even had uess that’s the nicest way to put it Well, she calls hi, controlling, de, and jerky

“This is her senior proo last year” She pauses when he grunts “And I’ her this year She has a right to experience this And Dane is a nice boy Right, Dane?” she yells over her shoulder

“Uhh” he starunt some more

“The boy doesn’t even kno to talk, Izzy I bet he will be nothing but handsy and think with his little pecker Nope No way Not near irl”

Oh My God I wish I could just fall into a hole right now I try to see over my parents to find out if Dane heard that, but with Daddy basically being a giant, that’s not happening

“You did not just say that!” I yell at his back

Daddy turns around, his movements aith how reen eyes, so like my own, slant and harden He looks down at my dress for the thousandth ti his displeasure that it’s showing too ets

My strapless, red dress has a sweetheart neckline, and everything he calls e Well, okay, there is so busty, you couldn’t even call what is showing “cleavage” His first proble Then Iaround without my wrap on That’s when he saw that the dress was completely backless toone Which is clearly when he lost his mind

“You look just like your o e finally cas And I guarantee you, Danielle Reid, any teenage boy who doesn’t bat for the other teahts I’ll cut his dick off for No You aren’t going with that boy, and that’s final”

I harden my eyes, and his narrow even further