Chapter 58

The thing you need to realize is that this is meant to be. I’m going to have you because that’s the way this has to play out. And if that means I have to take you when I’m at my strongest, well, I guess things will work out the way things are going to work out, won’t they?

See you soon. Lyle

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Pacing was out of the question. Instead, as Randy watched Vaughn hook up what turned out to be a blade on the front of his pickup, then watched Vaughn make a few sloppy passes so he could get free of the driveway, Randy wrung his hands. He hated himself for doing it. It made him feel like a weak, simpering old man, incapable of anything else.