I go downstairs after tucking Cathy in. She cried herself to sleep. Carl is in the living room watching something and drinking beer.
"Listen, Carl I.. " I want to clear any misunderstandings that we might possibly have.
"Let's talk tomorrow," he keeps the bottle aside and gets up and goes to his room without sparing a backward glance to me. Carl is hurt because Cathy confessed to me and not him. I understand but I don’t know what to do about it.
What did I do? It's not my fault she divulged her secret to me and not to him! Frankly speaking, he is intimidating when he is mad. He looks scary, he does. f**k. He is hurting, I know but I don't know how to make it alright. Catherine doesn't know him as I do. He wouldn't have spanked her if he knew how scared she was even if she had made the w
