Mia didn’t answer Lynn’s question until he asked
again in a slightly different way.
Looking at Mia for a long minute, he could see tears
welling up in those beautiful black eyes. He hugged her up and tenderly nuzzled
her neck, whispering, “What’s wrong, baby? What has this man done to you? Tell
me what’s wrong, baby.”
Tears rolling down her face, Mia sobbed, “Nothing to
me, Lynn. He has done nothing to me. It’s Sly I’m worried about. That man is a
child molester. I think he has had his way with Sly.”
Lynn came up off the sofa like he had been shot in
the ass with hot pork skins. “How do you know this, Mia? This is a serious
accusation you’re laying on this ole boy.”
Mia patted the sofa and said softly, “Sit down, Lynn
and let me tell you the whole story.” When she finished, Lynn was up pacing the
floor and asking her to repeat some of the stuff she had told him.
Finally, Lynn sat beside Mia when he finished asking
questions. Lynn asked again, “Milt does not know about this?”
“No, Lea and I decided not to tell him or Paw.”
“Why not? They’re gonna find out anyhow, Mia.
Somebody’s going to tell them or Mr. Roger, and then the fat will be in the
fire. You and Lea are not going to involve the law in this, I assume?” Lynn asked.
“No, if we did, all they would do is ask Sly endless
questions, drooling over the answers and try to make her out as a slut.”
“Whatcha gonna do then, baby?”
“We don’t have that figured out exactly, yet.”
“You and Lea, ah, are fixing to do some dirt to this
Ryan guy, Mia?”
“Yeah, we are. Big-time dirt.”
“Y’all are fixing to get yo ass in a real jam if you
ain’t real slick bout dis, darling.”
Teary-eyed and distraught, Mia looked at Lynn. Her
beautiful lips were trembling. The recollection of how her low-life stepfather
constantly fondled and molested her from the time she was ten years old until
his accident. Mia’s mom ignored her pleas to make him stop messing with her.
She was afraid her abusive husband would leave her. Just days before Mia’s fifteenth
birthday news of her stepfather’s near fatal injury in an oil field accident sentencing
him to a nursing home for the rest of his life was the best news Mia had ever
received. “Why couldn’t something like that happen to that perverted Ryan,” she
asked herself. “Would serve him right.”
“Why can’t we just put him in that big trailer of
yours and just haul his no-good ass off somewhere and forget about that
bastard, or something like that?” asked Mia, wiping her teary eyes.
“You mean get him in my reefer trailer and turn the
unit to freezing and haul his sorry ass off somewhere and dump him?”
Mia slid up to Lynn, softy saying, “It didn’t bother
him not one bit to fool Sly into coming over to his apartment and then take my
baby’s virginity away, Lynn. He will pay for having his way with her, one way
or the other.”
“Are you sure he has had his way with Sly or are you
just assuming that he did?” asked Lynn.
“Yes, I am sure. If you were in Sly’s place, would
you tell the truth, especially if he offered to get you a big recording
contract? He’s has had his way with her,” whined Mia.
“You want me to help you make something happen to
him?”
Biting on his ear, kissing his neck, and rubbing his
butt with one hand as she held him close with the other hand, she finally
kissed him and stuck her tongue deep into his mouth. As she gently broke off
the kiss, Mia cooed into his ear, “It’s nice to have a real man around the
house, Lynn.” Both knew the pact was sealed without another word being said.
“It will be dark in a little bit, Lynn. Do you want
to go for a swim?”
“I didn’t bring my bathing suit.”
“You don’t need one,” said Mia as she jumped up and
headed for the swimming pool. “I usually turn out all the lights and go
skinny-dipping.”