When Deacon had thought of using the shield privilege. He had truly believed with everything in him that he would be using it in order to deal with his father. But now he had been proven spectacularly wrong. All that it had taken to do that was the unexpected and totally unannounced arrival of one Paul Parker, his best friend.
Early that morning Deacon had thought that he knew exactly how his day would go. That he would head into work, stay there for a few hours, head home, chat with Slater, share a meal with her, while being told what her meeting with Erin had been like. He had thought that when he saw her later that day. They would be talking about when he could expect to see Slater's best friend so that he could prepare himself properly.
