Sonny looked at his dad and said, “That’s Dunc. Dunc would never bully Mom.”

Hank was silent for a moment before he asked, “Do you like Dunc a lot?”

Sonny shook his head. “I don’t like Dunc, but he’s not a bad man.”

Dunc was a good person, but that did not have anything to do with whether or not he liked him.

“Sonny, Dunc is going to take Mom away from you. He’ll become a bad guy in the future. What you need to do is stop Dunc and Mom from being alone together. If Mom wants to go on a date with Dunc, you need to cry and throw a tantrum, get it?”

Sonny learned the way his Uncle Zak frowned when he was angry and said loudly, “Dunc likes Sonny! He’s fighting Mom for Sonny, not fighting Sonny for Mom! Dunc looks scary and Sonny doesn’t like it, but Dunc is not a bad guy!

“And Mom never goes out with Dunc! Every time Dunc comes over, he gives Sonny a pinwheel. Sonny doesn’t like pinwheels anymore.”

Dunc did not even know how to change it up.

Hank was speechless.

He stopped and look