Dakota didn’t want to think about it anymore. But as he sat in the driver’s seat of their camper, he could think of nothing else.
The conversation had turned into a day-long argument. Unquestionably the biggest fight the two of them ever had. As it turned out, they didn’t agree at all about the logical course of action. Terrell thought he should go by himself or not at all. He refused to risk Dakota or Kenna. And he stuck to that stubborn angle for hours.
Over time, Dakota switched his position. Instead of leaving by himself, he argued that they both should go, but Terrell would act in a diminished capacity. The things he needed to say in order to broker the compromise damaged them both. He used Terrell’s disability against him. It was the only thing that gave him an edge. “You can’t do
