CHAPTER 7
DAMON
I’m going to be a dad.
The thought cycles in my brain over and over on the drive home. I tried to save face in front of Adeline and make her believe I’m totally cool with this new role so she wouldn’t worry, but damn, I’m filled with f*****g fear. Then, like an i***t, I brought up my dad and all the lawyer s**t he’s surely going to throw at me… her… us. Why would I worry her like that? I shouldn’t even tell my family, any of them.
I pull into my designated parking spot in the garage across from my apartment building. Instead of heading to my apartment, I go into Peeper’s Alley, the bar at the bottom level of the four-flat, needing something to drink. When I approach, I tear down the poster board someone hand wrote “The Den” on and put it up on the gate to the stairs tha
