Eli paced back and forth in front of the SUV as he waited for his Uncle’s plane to land.
“Calm down son, he’ll be landing in ten minutes.”
“How can you be so calm, father, when your firstborn son is about to be massacred? He’s going to rip my head off.”
Maxon chuckled at his son’s dramatics.
“Your uncle is not going to touch a hair on your head. Why do you think I am here?”
Eli’s head whipped towards him.
“You were going to send me on my own?”
“Of course not. I was going to send your Uncles Nate and Noah, but then they would just have stepped back and watched your Uncle Wes give you a hard time. They would have seen him as having fun with you.”
“Yeah, having fun with me as he ripped my head off of my shoulders. I was supposed to keep all men away from them.”
“And you did. It’
