Chapter 111

I knew it. The old man’s face turned red, and the old woman looked green. Great combination if this was Christmas.

Wills took my hand. “Theo and I are—”

“No! I will not permit such vile practices—”

“Grandpa, Theo and I love each other. What we feel for each other isn’t vile.”

“It’s vile and disgusting, and you’re going straight to hell! You and this abomination beside you!” the old man spewed venomously.

“Grandpa, no! Theo is the best thing—”

“Anthony was right about you! You’re no better than your father! I curse the day I ever agreed to let my daughter see him. If she’d just married Junior….”

“Who?”

His grandfather scowled at him. “I just thank God she isn’t alive to see what a disgrace you’ve become! Get out of my house!”

“But Grandpa—”

“Go! I no longer have a grandson!”

For a second it felt as if time had rolled back thirteen years and my father was telling me more or less the same thing. God, I wished Wills didn’t have to face this.