“Is that for me, sweetheart? You going to hit the big, bad wolf with that little rock?” He leaned in and his voice became so hard. Harder than Betsey had ever heard it. “You swing that thing at me, little girl, and you’ll be on the first bus to the closest foster agency. Maybe, after a few years, you’ll meet up with your loser mom in prison. You can have a mother-daughter reunion behind bars.” If Billy was hoping to make the little girl cry, he failed. She didn’t cry. She just slowly blinked and kept staring at him. Then, without a word between them, the two oldest girls faced each other.
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Atta girls
