Rooster After hours of sitting in an interrogation room, I was finally allowed to leave the police station. My lawyer did all the talking while I sat there and kept my mouth shut. Something I wished some of the other guys would learn how to do. Especially since it left the officers red-faced when their caption walked in and told them to cut me free, Allen wasn’t pressing charges and claimed the whole thing was just a misunderstanding. Making me wonder what his plan was once I left. But at the same time, I didn’t care enough to find out. I had other s**t to take care of now. I had been lied to for years and not by Petal’s mother. She had been lied to as well. Allen said he had gotten a paternity test done, and Petal was his. I didn’t blame her for believing him, but now I wanted an actual

