Let the Monster Out by Chad Lucas EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Chad Lucas
- Language: English
- Genre: Children’s Scary Stories
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TRYING
Bones Malone didn’t punch Tony Spezio in the face.
Not after he found Tony picking on his little brothers. Not even after he
told Tony to knock it off, and Tony responded by saying something
unrepeatably gross about his mother.
Sure, he did shove Tony against the basement wall and yell, “Talk about
my mom again and I will end you.” But that was better than throwing fists,
right?
He was trying. That counted for something, right?
Not in Eileen Spezio’s book. She thumped downstairs just in time to
hear the end you part and blamed everything on Bones, as usual.
“You will not behave like a thug in my home!” she screeched.
Bones saw red. A white lady calling him a thug was not OK, but he held
his tongue. Well, almost.
“Teach your kid some manners, before he gets himself beat,” he shot
back.
Mrs. Spezio’s eyes bulged and spit gathered at the corners of her mouth
as she lost her mind. Tony smirked over her shoulder the whole time, while
heat built in Bones’s chest. He couldn’t stop picturing how satisfying it
would feel to shove past Mrs. Spezio and knock that smug grin off Tony’s
extremely punchable face.
But he didn’t. Not this time. He was trying, for his mom’s sake.
But that didn’t count in her book either. She got an earful from Eileen
when she picked up the boys after work. Bones could hear every word with
his ear to the door of the spare room where Mrs. Spezio had banished all
three Malone boys, even though Raury and Dillon hadn’t done anything
wrong.
“I know you’re new in town, and I was happy to open my home to your
boys, but that oldest of yours is so disrespectful, so aggressive . . .”
Bones couldn’t hear his mom’s reply, but he recognized its tone: weary.
It wasn’t the first time she’d apologized on his behalf. When she opened the
bedroom door, all she said was, “Let’s go.” The boys hurried to catch up as
she marched out of the Spezios’ house and down the sidewalk, each step
radiating fury.
“Is the car still broken?” Dillon asked.
“Yep.” She practically hurled the word to the sidewalk.
“Bones was only—”
“We are not discussing this now.”
She met Bones’s eyes for half a second. “If I have to give that woman a
raise to let you stay,” she murmured, “you best believe it’s coming from
your allowance.”
Bones waited as long as he could stand it. He made his brothers wash up
and set the table before he approached his mother. She didn’t lift her eyes
from the pot of spaghetti boiling on the stove, but her shoulders rose.
“Not now, Quentin.”
Ugh. He hated his real name. She usually reserved it for formal
situations, like the first time they met with a lawyer. When she used it at
home, it was a warning.
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