I can't believe he said it, he actually said it. He'd just made my life so much easier. I'd spent the last part of the evening convincing my girl that I was going to talk him into letting her come with me at the end of summer. Even though I suspected what her mother was up to, seeing the look on her face after that stunt with the car had triggered me.

No way am I going to watch her look like that all summer when it's not even necessary. I knew the danger, had ...