“You’re in a lot of trouble young man!”
“Grandma, I’m sorry,” Cole pleaded.
“You could have been hurt; whatever happened to that man could have happened to you. Why there are any number of things that...” She stopped speaking but stood over him, one hand on her hip, wagging a finger of the other hand at him.
“I know,” he hung his head. “Mom thrashed me for hours about it already.”
Faye brushed off his exaggeration and continued, “Oh, you ain’t heard the last of it yet; not by a longshot! You still have your aunt and your grandfather to deal with you on this yet.”
Cole sucked in a breath and blew it out hard. “What do you think Papa will do?”
“I don’t know that for sure, but I can imagine he’ll start with tanning your hide. That’s what he ought’a do, anyway.”
His eyes shifted as he h
