Brynn and Sebastian Hate Each Other by Bethany Turner

Author:Bethany Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2023-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Sebastian

Monday, March 21

9:05 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time

Jo looked up from her coffee and Bill looked up from his newspaper in response to the jingle of the bell above the door.

“What are you doing, Bill?” Sebastian asked as soon as he entered. He pulled off his jacket and hung it by the door before walking up to their table, pulling out an empty chair, and swinging it around, slinging his leg over and sitting in it backward like he was Mario Lopez, circa 1991. He couldn’t remember ever sitting in a chair that way, but in the moment it just felt right. Like invoking the power of youth and Bayside High would help him win the day. “What can you possibly hope to accomplish with this little coup d’état?”

Bill returned his eyes to his paper. “As I see it, you and Doc are the ones staging the coup. You forced this whole thing on us—”

“We voted!”

“—and come to that, I think we need to revisit the bylaws. Why should the mayor have the deciding vote?”

Jo sighed. “Then like I said, Bill, we can discuss that. Bring it up at a town meeting. Maybe we need to have a fifth person on council. Whatever. But the vote was fair—”

Old Man Kimball lowered his paper in a huff. “The vote, if you recall, Josephine, was supposed to be about Township Days. That’s what was on the agenda. I’m not even sure the vote about the Cornell girl has any legal standing.”

Sebastian’s eyes grew wide as they locked with Jo’s, and she rolled hers and shook her head. Legal standing. Bill was one to be a stickler about legal standing, considering the number of times Jo had had to record into the minutes things like, The quorum proceeded with the vote after Mr. Kimball dozed off.

“Where is she, anyway?” Jo asked. “Did she get scared away?”

No, she hadn’t gotten scared away. She’d probably had every right to refuse to go along with whatever this was, but she hadn’t fought it.

“She’s out talking to Doc.”

The sight of her—tough, obstinate, often rude, usually infuriating Brynn Cornell—wrapped in Doc Atwater’s arms had taken him off guard. Her face buried in his chest and her shoulders bouncing up and down. Heaving. With every heave resulting in Doc holding her tighter.

He just hadn’t been prepared for that.

Bill harumphed under his breath. “Always the nice guy.”

“And what’s so wrong with being the nice guy, Bill?” Jo asked. She pushed up and adjusted in the wooden chair. “I’m as put out with her as anyone. She made her choices, and she has to deal with the consequences of them. But I’m guessing she’s dealing with a lot tougher stuff than you wanting to scold her and try to make her feel guilty, or whatever you’re doing. So if Doc’s choice is to be nice to her, good for him. Someone needs to be.”

The bell over the door jingled again, and all three of them looked up. Doc’s arm had guided Brynn in, but he stepped back slightly as they crossed over the threshold.

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