Chapter 20: Argument“It’s none of your business!” Laurie was genuinely angry with him. He’d not seen this side of Laurie yet—the boundless frustrated anger he had for his own physical limitations, yes. But not this anger directed outward toward someone or something else. He had a feeling it wasn’t something that happened all that often.
Laurie thrust himself up and away from his seat at the kitchen table and turned his back on Phil and Cat as he flung himself across the room to look out of the window over the yard.
“It’s none of your damned business, Phil. Whether Cat stays or not is up to me, no-one else! Not her father, not you, not anyone!”
Cat was frozen in her seat at the table, back to the Rayburn. She had gone still and lost colour again the moment Laurie raised his voice in ange
