Louie was bouncing still high on the adrenalin. “Yeah. That one there was going for broke, but Axel caught him,” he patted the dog. “Didn’t you? You’re such a good doggie!”
Shaun rubbed his head.
Glanced at Louie.
“Is it always like this with these girls?”
Louie shrugged. “There’s always something. Last fall I was going back and forth to Chicago with Autumn to get some legal stuff sorted with her.”
“What’s it take to settle these girls down?”
“Have you met their mother?”
“Well yeah.”
“Did you know she turned in a cult some thirty years ago?”
Shaun blinked. “What?”
“Have Winter tell you the story. I think these girls are just all on the wild side of things every once in a while.”
“Guess it’ll keep things interesting.”
“Probably.”
After a bit, Winter came back out, and a new car showed up.
Winter touched Shaun’s hand, squeezing his fingers for a second as the woman climbed out of the car.
A young woman, probably in her twenties, plus an older woman, obviously the mother.
Shaun didn’t speak fluent Spanish, so he didn’t really catch exactly what was said, but he heard that tone from his own mother, this young man was getting his ass chewed royally, not just by his mom, but by his sister as well.
The young woman turned to Winter. “I am sorry these pendejos damaged the salon. I didn’t tell them to do this.”
“You said she was evil,” Rico cried out.
“I was mad,” Sacha said. “Just because I was mad doesn’t mean you need to defend me!”
“I’m the man of the house!” Rico said.
“And you can’t do your own laundry,” the mother said, grabbing his ear.
One of the officers came over to Winter. “Now, Winter, as the business manager, are you pressing charges?”
She glanced at the boys. Then at Sacha.
“I don’t know. I need to talk to my mother and see what she wants to do.”
20
Saturday night
“So, Shaun, how did your new apprentices do today?” Summer asked as she took a bite of the macaroni and cheese.
It was baked chicken, veggies, and mac and cheese at Celestial Springs Jones’s house, and we all had gathered to enjoy a week without having to call the police once.
It might be a record.
