Scott POV
The phone message surprised me; it was the last thing I had ever expected from Pam, and Pam's explanation was even worse. In all these years we have known Pam, she had never mentioned this or even hinted that there was a risk to the boys by that person. I should have put microchips in them before now.
At least we had an idea of what was happening and who was involved, but we had made a different assumption about why. We worked out that it was him because of the yacht, which confirms that. The man shot the other because he caused Austin to have a head injury, proving my thoughts that Austin was not meant to be harmed as badly as he had. That is what I said before, but confirmation like this helped clear that. It did not help Austin that much, though; it made him more compliant,
