All That Remains (Manere Book 1) by Megan Bushree

Author:Megan Bushree [Bushree, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-16T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

After my mom informed me weeks earlier that she would find me a new place to work if I didn’t like working with Abby, I knew I had something to fall back on. Since things didn’t work out after being unceremoniously fired from the sandwich shop, she reminded me of her pull in town. I thought she was just trying to make me feel better or was threatening hard labor. I could never know with her. I wasn’t even sure if I wanted a job before college. I needed the extra money. I had a few thousand saved up from the last two years of babysitting and working weekends and a few nights a week at the market I worked senior year, but since I didn’t know how much I would need once I was on my own, I couldn’t exactly afford to turn anything down.

The stash of money was usually hidden inside a stuffed horse I got when I was a toddler. The horse once made noise using a battery back, which was buried in its belly, but once I started earning money, I ripped out the bulky battery back and decided it was the perfect spot to hide my wad of cash. The only person to see it was Lucy, which was a complete accident when she walked into my bedroom unexpectedly as I was pulling the cash out of my hiding spot. Her expression appeared far too eager, and she wanted to know where I got all the money. After I explained that it wasn’t much and not a big deal, I expected her to forget about it. She may have, but there was always a part of me that didn’t like the desirous look in Lucy’s eyes. It was difficult to imagine she would ask to borrow the money or expect me to buy her something, but it wasn’t entirely out of the question.

Nothing was ever out of the question with Lucy. In Manere, extra money seemed more than covetable, it was so rare it looked like a lost cause to strive for it. Most lived in ramshackle homes or trailers. There were also a few duplexes and triplexes. The only apartments in town sat on opposite sides of the town, each with fifteen units. One set still had residences and a landlord but the other one, Desert Sunset which was the one on the end of town closest to the exit, was no longer a working apartment complex. People lived in them, but there was no water, power, or anyone collecting rent. The police rarely bothered the condemned property. They claimed it was not part of their jurisdiction because it was so close to the town’s border but we always figured it was because of the seedy things that went on there, not to mention the teenage runaways who would only cause more paperwork for the cops.

**

“Angela Abrams, how you doing? How’s the family?” Carl Blethenfield asked me in his typical buoyant manner.

“Great. The family is great too.

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