Still on Dylan's father's recollection
The other men looked down and saw that one of them was dead. It was not how it was supposed to happen. Charlie was just one man in his house, so why the hell was one of them dead and they still could not do anything to defend themselves?
"You have a knife?" the man seated asked, the sides of his neck tightening like a Roman knot.
"He asked the wrong question." Charlie responded looking at the dead man on the floor.
"You said no weapons!" the man screamed.
But Charlie just scoffed and waved that away. "Oh, did you all think that I meant what I said earlier? This is my damn house. And you're in it. So you get to enjoy its hospitality. It wasn't as if I forced you all to come here. Did I? That was your own miserable choice."
None of them wanted t
