Christmas in Signal Bend by Susan Fanetti

Author:Susan Fanetti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: new adult, motorcycle, motorcycle club, holiday, small town, family relationships
Publisher: Susan Fanetti
Published: 2023-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

6: Lilli

This latest ‘Snowmageddon’ was cutting a swath through the whole middle of the country. It had started a few days earlier as torrential rains in the west, with a whole-ass tsunami in California, and heavy snows from the Sierras through the Rockies. When it got through the Rockies it had seemed to lose most of its steam, rolling through the Great Plains like an early visit from Santa with some Christmas snow.

And then, just as everybody decided the worst was over, the prairie winds joined the party, and got it roaring once again.

By one o’clock in Signal Bend, the storm was fully upon them, and at least six inches of snow had accumulated in near-white-out conditions. If not for the gales of wind pushing the snow against buildings and through the woods, the accumulation would likely be even more already.

Every weather update seemed to increase the predicted total accumulation—they were in the twenty-to-twenty-four inch range now, and every single story was about ransacked stores, multi-car pileups, closed airports, and dire admonitions to get the fuck off the roads and hole up somewhere warm.

In town, most everybody had heeded those warnings. With the exception of the Price Chopper market, where Steve was trying to hang on to help out any stragglers who needed supplies, all the stores and businesses were already closed. Christmas Eve was a huge shopping day, of course, and Signal Bend’s traditional holiday festivities were a draw through both Phelps and Dent counties, so it hurt to lose that income. But Nature didn’t give a fuck about last-minute shoppers.

There were no outsiders in Signal Bend on this Christmas Eve, no shoppers in their quaint little shops, no drinkers at Valhalla Vin or No Place, no diners at the Chop House or Marie’s. But Lilli and Shannon, with the assistance of all of the Horde and most of the other town leaders, had managed—well, were managing thus far—to preserve the holiday for the townsfolk.

They had moved everything indoors, to the big Night Horde compound, which comprised the MC’s clubhouse and the office and warehouse of Signal Bend Construction, a business Isaac’s father had started and the club had resurrected when they’d turned away from hardcore outlaw work. In the years since then, SBC had become an important builder in Mid-Missouri, and they’d expanded commensurately.

Before the snow hit hard, they’d enlisted the Horde to move any heavy machinery out of the warehouse and push everything that moved to the walls and clear the floor as much as possible. Now they were setting up as many ‘stations’ as possible to try to replicate a Signal Bend Christmas as closely as they could.

The stores and restaurants were closed, but Cory, Jackie, and Tiffany had brought over several cases of wine and cheese from Valhalla Vin, Saxon and his family had just about stripped Marie’s clean, bringing plenty of meat, potatoes, coffee, hot chocolate, ingredients for a massive breakfast, and all the fresh pies from the case. Jeff had enlisted Cox and Darwin to haul kegs of beer from No Place.

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