The booth seat creaked. Thank you, Eleanor, I said. Go home. Lock your doors. Where are you going? She asked. I’m going to finish this. I said, I’m going to kill them all. I walked out of the diner. The sky was starting to turn gray in the east. Dawn was coming, but for Victor and his sons, the sun was about to set forever. I got back in my truck.
I didn’t feel the cold anymore. I didn’t feel fatigue. They killed my child. They beat my wife. The rules of engagement were gone. There was no more non-lethal. There was no more sending a message. This was extermination. I drove toward the estate. The wolf pack was huddled inside their fortress, thinking they were safe behind walls and guards.
They didn’t know that a Delta father was coming for them. And a Delta father doesn’t stop until the threat is eliminated. The sun was bleeding into the sky. A bruised purple dawn that matched the feeling in my chest. I drove toward Victor’s estate, the fortress, with the medical report burning a hole in the passenger seat. Pregnant.
