Chapter 7

Johnny licked his fingers and thought, It’s almost as if he is trying to warn me how it would be.

“I can empathize with the way you feel about control. All of my life I’ve had to be the sensible one, the one in charge, I want someone else to carry that burden. If you found the right person, what would you offer in return for control of his life?” Johnny leaned in to better hear Caden’s answer over the other conversations at and under the table

“Everything I am, along with everything I have. I won’t be able to provide for my boy as well as Cisco, Bear or Gary; but with this new job I’ll make a respectable living. We would live well but not ostentatiously. He would live in my home and be subject to my direction. Although I’m not into giving out a great deal of pain, I would want to do occasional scenes and there would be daily discipline to keep him grounded.”