Chapter 10

He didn’t say anything then, but when they were home, and had eaten dinner, he broached the subject.

“You hate women like the one you pointed out this afternoon, don’t you?” Lloyd said.

“You better believe I do,” Blaine snarled in reply. “The predators looking for someone to keep them in the style they want. Someone to prove they can catch a husband, even at their age. The ones Dad would hook-up with, for a month or a year, who treated me like I didn’t exist while taking all of his attention for themselves.”

“You know,” Lloyd replied softly, “you should do something about them.”

“I wish I could.”

“Why can’t you?” Lloyd looked slyly at his twin. “How hard would it be to eliminate them? You know you want to. The same way I’d love to kill our father, except that isn’t possible anymore.”

“What are you suggesting?” Blaine replied, studying him. “That I attack a strange woman in some…some dark alley that they’d never go into in the first place?”