Lyla's POV
When Maxten dropped me back at Conrad's house, I wasn't sure what I was going to do, but I knew that I couldn't sit there all day. I would just stew about what was happening to my father. They may have promised me that they wouldn't kill him, but I didn't expect them not to inflict some damage. I couldn't stop that and a small part of me doesn't want it to be stopped.
"Lyla, are you OK?" Avery asked, wrapping me up in a hug.
"I'm OK. Where are the kids?"
"Barrette and Everette took them to do something fun for the day. So, it's a girls' day," Ashlynn said. "We just need to stop and grab my friend Adara and wait for Avery's slow ass."
"Where are we going?"
"Shopping," she said, wiggling her eyebrows.
Thirty minutes later we were finally out of there and Avery and
