Page 47 of Like Fathers, Like Son
Blaze
Shewasascreamingmess, and it was only after dad Dory insisted on dosing her with that weird stuff in the syringes I’d accidentally used on myself, that she finally shut the fuck up.
We stood and watched her as she blinked dazedly at us, I mean, her chest was still kinda heaving a bit, but she was calmer.
“What the fuck is that stuff, dad?”
He grinned, glancing at the syringe in his hand.
“Just a little something to make a person more uh,pliant.”
Pliant? Yeah, that was definitely a good word for it. If my parents weren’t here right now, I’d definitely be testing Anneka to see how aware she was, as I slid deep inside her again. I groaned, casually manoeuvring my hands down to cover the boner I really couldn’t hide in sweatpants.
Dad Gray started laughing. “That’s my boy. You wanna do her while she’s like that? We can leave.”
“Dammit, Gray!” Mum slapped his chest and glared at all of us in turn. Finally she fixed her glare on me, and didn’t relent as she folded her arms.
“You haven’t told her, have you?”
I reached up to scratch my face absently, forgetting what I was exposing to my parents by uncovering my dick. Who the hell thought sweatpants were a good idea?
“Told her?”
Did her glare just get more fierce? Yeah. Go figure.
“Don’t play stupid with me. This is all bad enough, but she doesn’t even know why you’re doing it.”
Did it matter? “Is it any of her business? Shouldn’t she fucking remember what she did? What she caused? Speaking of…” I looked from one parent to the others in turn. “How’s Em?”
They all sobered, but then dad Gray grinned again.
“More fucking goth every day, kid, but she’s still fighting. She almost has more tattoos than you at this point, too.”
“And the piercings, don’t forget those,” mum muttered, glancing at Anneka again. The bitch was still kinda awake, but definitely not really with us right now. I liked it. I already planned to use more of that stuff on her.
“How much of that stuff can I give her?” I asked dad Dory, and watched as he lifted the single syringe once more.
“Never more than one of these in the space of a day or two. Promise me, Blaze. Any more and you could lose her.”
Lose her…lose her?Like, I hated the bitch, but suddenly that idea was not as appealing as it would have been even a day ago.
“Got it. Uh… I accidentally told her some of the stuff you did to mum back then… and she knows I killed her dad.”
Everyone got a bit pissed about that, not least my mum who still seemed to like to tell herself that I was blissfully unaware of what my dads had done to her when they first met.
After they calmed down, we watched as Anneka calmly drifted off to sleep.
“You can’t let her go now, kid.” I looked up and realised that only dad Gray was still in the room. How the hell did I miss my other parents leaving?
“I know.”
“No, I’m serious. What she knows… what she might be able to tell the police, kid, with your juvenile record, you don’t need the extra heat, yeah?”
That wave of shame that washed over me? Yeah, that had been happening ever since I broke their most important rule of all time; don’t get caught.
A few incidents here and there, one occasion of being seen ‘peeping’ in a woman’s window, and yeah, I had to be more fucking careful. All of those incidents had happened between the ages of eleven and thirteen, but still.That stuff never went away, and neither did the shame.
“Blaze, look at me.” I turned to meet dad’s gaze and he looked like he understood. That was the great thing about him. Unlike my other dad, he seemed to get how I felt about these things. I think we’d always been closer than me and my other dad, because of our love of fire and burning things.
