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The following night, Whisper was on her way down the stairs just as the McDade brothers came in through the front door. Nicole and Burl had been there to greet them. After the initial jeering about why they were getting a welcome party, someone noticed the cut on Burl’s throat and the mood became more sinister.
The boys questioned their father on who’d gotten close enough, and had the balls, to come for him. Burl shrugged it off, swearing never to let her get that close again. That changed the mood. The men crowed about their father’s prowess assuming one of the patriarch’s mistresses had gotten kinky.
It sickened her.
When Whisper got to the bottom of the stairs, Zaid tried to make eye contact, but she ignored him. She tried to ignore all of them and headed for the door. Bosco said
