“It’s notpretty,” I said, and sucked a noodle into my mouth.
“I don’t needpretty.”
“You know aboutDad’s club. You saw how they handled Stewart this morning, right?”
Huck nodded.
“Well, when Cashfound out what Eric did, he raged, and in that rage, he’d lured Eric to someprivate trails out in Ridgefield.”
“How’d he dothat?”
“He catfishedhim.”
Huck finishedchewing and frowned. “How’d he catfish him?”
“Eric had acrush on the homecoming queen, so Cash used the promise of sex with her, andshocker, Eric rushed right over. He figured out way too late that it wasn’t hiscrush waiting for him, it was my brothers. Archer and Cash beat the shit out ofhim and then…”
“Then, what?”
I shook my head.“I don’t think you’re ready.”
“Daisy, justspit it out.”
“Cash sliced oneof Eric’s Achilles tendons.”
“Fuck,seriously?”
“Seriously,” Iconfirmed. “Eric had been a track star, so it ended his running career.”
“Did he call thecops?”
“My brothersaren’t idiots. They had ‘airtight’ alibis and no one other than Eric sawanything. It would have been a ‘he said, they said’ situation and since Ericwent to meet a technically underaged girl, who was he going to tell?”
Huck scowled. “Asshole.”
“Indeed.”
“I woulda cuthis dick off, too.”
I nearly chokedon my broccoli beef as I bit out a laugh.
“Shit, are youokay?”
I nodded,holding my hand up. “Yes, give me a second.”
I managed to getmy coughing under control, taking a sip of beer, then settling back into myseat. “I honestly thought you’d find everything my brothers did unacceptable.”
“Yeah, well,like I said, if this Eric guy had done that to Louisa, I’d have cut his dickoff. If Dad hadn’t intervened with Robin, I might have done some serious damageto Cyrus’s dick given half the chance.”
“Good to know.”
He settled hishand on my calf and squeezed. “You’re safe with me, Daisy. Always.”
“I’m figuringthat out, Huck.” I jabbed a chopstick at him. “You’re just gonna have to giveme a minute to get used to it.”
“I can do that.”
“I am going tomake you wait a little longer though,” I warned. “But for future reference, I’mon the pill.”
