Chapter 10
Kiko dropped by Angus Arts to pick up something for Dom on his way to the bakery. Ben wasn’t around, but a smaller, sadder-looking version of him was. This had to be Christian, Ben’s son. The kid looked bitter to Kiko, but he managed to keep his expression a neutral boredom when he rang up Kiko’s purchase.
“Shouldn’t you be in school?” he asked. Mount Angus High School only let out for a week around Christmas as he remembered.
“Sick day,” said the teen. He was young, had to be about fifteen. “Shouldn’t you be at work?”
“Touché,” said Kiko, and left. He was mentally shaking his head about any parent calling their kid in sick to work the register at their store all the way to the bakery. It was going to be hard to talk Dom out of his fixation with Ben if he was a crappy parent
