Chapter 42 Chapter 42

Carl listening to Duke's voice dropped the call breathing like a varmint that had been provoked by another. Duke turned to Bethany and seeing her in the state that she was, held her in his arms as he caressed her hair.

Bethany could not understand why Carl had to talk to her in that manner but it was very disrespectful. Duke taking her back to her seat and kneeling inform of her, told her to calm down as he got up and walked to the kitchen to get a glass of water to help her calm down.

"Here take it and drink it up".

" Thank you", she said taking the glass from Duke's hands. Seeing how affected she was from what Carl had said, he did not want to push the wound by asking things that were only going to make her more hurt.

Picking up the remote control, he made an effort to search for channels that were showing lively things, but the largest number of the channels were just showing things that concerned the present state of the country.