Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 65039 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 325(@200wpm)___ 260(@250wpm)___ 217(@300wpm)
Things calmed down rather quickly and soon all that could be heard was the noise of eating and laughter.
Katarina's eyes almost fell out of her head when she saw the size of her porterhouse steak. "Holy... I can't eat all that."
"Eat what you can and leave the rest baby."
"I can't do that, that's wasteful." She fussed at me.
"Damn Angel, for the love of...are our kids going to be as fussy as you are?" You could've heard a fucking pin drop as all the nosy fucks at the table were suddenly all ears, katarina meanwhile was looking at me like she wanted to get the show started.
I chose to ignore them as Katarina asked Pamela to bring her a to go container before she even started to eat.
"What are you doing babe, you're not eating any leftover steak later, if you get hungry again we'll get you something to eat."
"No no, maybe we'll pass a homeless person on the way and I can give it to them." She meticulously cut off a huge chunk of meat and put it in the container.
"Uh huh, I know what that means." It meant that she'd make me go out of the way if needs be to find one, no problem, if it's what she wanted I'll make sure she got it.
Lunch was noisy as was to be expected with this bunch, I was proud of Katarina for carrying on as if nothing had happened, she just went right back to laughing and joking around with the others like business as usual.
I watched the way the other women interacted with her and was more than happy to realize that they genuinely liked her, they weren't just getting along because she was with me, they loved her because she was mine in every sense of the word and they could see that, but more than that they liked the person she is.
After a hefty tip for Pamela, we were back on the road in less than two hours. katarina found her homeless guy almost twenty minutes after we left.
I wouldn't let her approach him alone and she tried giving me shit,"You'll scare him away Colton, let me do it."
"Nope." I walked her over to the guy who was sitting on the sidewalk with a sign.
"Sir, I've got some food here if you'd like." She was very tentative and respectful, the old guy looked at her a bit skeptically before reaching his hand out.
"Much obliged little missy." When he opened the container and saw the large piece of steak with all the trimmings that katarina had insisted on ordering along with it his eyes welled up.
They started a running conversation about his life and I got the impression that she would've stayed there all day if we didn't have shit to do. I could see her heart as she spoke to this complete stranger like he was a long lost friend.
"Sir is this your usual hang out?"
"Barring snow or rain young man you can find old Cyrus right here on this corner."
"You don't have a place to stay?"
"Well the shelter makes us leave by a certain time in the morning and you can't go back until evening time."
"If you don't mind me asking why are you here, I heard you tell my girl that you're a Vietnam vet and you were once a mechanic."
"Well now, the wife got real sick a few years back and with one thing and another the money ran out, had to get rid of the house to pay for the medical bills, at least it gave her a few extra months but she passed, I'm just glad she's not here to go through this with me, this life is hard."
Fucking thieving fucks, I hate this shit. I looked around for a place, there was a motel across the street a few blocks down, the town wasn't the best but it would have to do for now.
"I'll tell you what Cyrus, you see that place over there, how about I pay for you to stay there for a week and I'll pick you up on the way back this way, here's my card..."
"Young man I don't understand, what does this mean?"
"Are you attached to this city Cyrus?"
"Well no son, can't say as I am."
"Well then, that card means that after I've taken my girl here to see her mom we're going to swing back here and pick you up, we'll find you a home in Washington, that's as good a place as any right?"
"Well, but, is this one of those new fan dangled tv shows?"
"No sir, you see those guys over there, we're bikers, we have a shop where we build custom bikes back in Washington, I'm very serious."
"Well I'll be damned."
"Actually sir I think it's quite the opposite."
"Well then I thank you son." Those tears were now falling.