Page 117 of Chasing Shelter

Why would he leave something at your house?

Kye sent a series ofshhhemojis and then a snake, which made no sense.

Cope

You know I have a thing about snakes. Ever since that scene in Indiana Jones where he falls in a pit of them. This fucker left a dozen fake ones in my bed the last time I came home.

Fallon

Kyler Blackwood, you didn’t.

Arden

Run Kye Kye, she’s coming for you.

Kye

He bails on us for Seattle, he runs the risk of retribution.

Shep

Honestly, with Kye, it could’ve been a lot worse.

Arden

Truth. Do you know that he rigged my showerhead with pink dye when I was in high school?

Kye

You kicked my ass in front of my friends.

Fallon

You mean your felons?

Kye hadn’t exactly been mixed up with good people when he came to live with us at sixteen. He’d gotten into some seriously dangerous stuff, including an underground fighting ring with ties to organized crime in Portland. It had taken time to pull him out, and it wasn’t without more than a few bumps in the road.

Kye

You know the few of those guys who still live here are terrified of you.

Rhodes

As they should be. Fal’s vengeful streak should have everyone shaking in their boots.

Fallon

I’m not that bad.

Rhodes

You wrapped that kid’s car in plastic wrap and covered it in Vaseline when he tried to jump Kye senior year.

Fallon

Bruce Caruthers is a dick weasel of epic proportions, and he deserved what he got.

Shep

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