“Are you aware that Tad and Becca aren’t home?”
“What? Of course they are.” Reba always had been a stubborn woman.
“Go check their bedrooms. I’ll wait.”
It didn’t take long for Reba to get back on the phone. “Where are my children?” she screeched over the line, and Jack winced and held the receiver away from his ear.
“They’re here.”
“Is…is Tom Weber there as well?”
“He is.”
“Send Tad and Becca home at once before that man corrupts them!”
“Not until you tell me why my father struck our son.”
“Your son was completely disrespectful.”
“What did Daddy say?”
“He’s a man of God who simply spoke the truth. You’re going to burn in hell, Thaddeus.”
God, he hated when she used his name. She’d always done that when she wanted to voice her displeasure with him.
“That’s not his business or
