Chapter 24

The two men crashed through the back door. If it had been built by men lesser skilled than their grandpa then it would have come right off its hinges. Riley slammed the door behind him but not before he saw Stella storming off towards the cottage. Shit.

Sully tried to swing on him, but he was slow and drunk. Riley pushed him away in disgust.

"Why in the hell would you do something like that?!" He asked in pure confusion.

Sully had landed on his narrow backside onto the floor. He jumped up prepared to fight the bigger man, because in his eyes Riley would always be that little kid that had tagged around him since he was only knee high. In his drunken state he truly thought that he could take the younger man and teach him a lesson or two. But he cared about the kid and wanted to understand why he was being attacked for basically no good reason.

"Why are you siding with them niggers against me?" he asked in earnest.