Eat Crow by Mary B. Moore

Author:Mary B. Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mary B. Moore

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

BEXLEY

Shoot me, shoot me, shoot me. Honestly, I didn’t care where just somebody, please do it now.

From the side-eyes I kept getting from our parents, they knew what we’d been doing when they got here. If that wasn’t enough of a hint, the way Dad kept spinning his knife as he stared at Logan was.

And to add to the discomfort, I had drying blue paint on my boobs sticking to my bra.

“What?” Logan barked, just as I was mentally digging a hole to Japan. “Hurst Townsend as mayor?”

Tipping his chair so that it was only resting on the back legs, Will grinned widely at us all. “Well, we suggested it to him, but he said no fucking way.” Logan and Dad both visibly relaxed at this. “Then your grandpa got to him and started to talk him around until Linda put her foot down, taking into account his hinky ticker and all.” He tapped his chest, reminding me of something else that’d happened while I was away that Pops had told me about—Hurst’s heart attack.

I remembered the call in the middle of the night like it’d just happened. Pops thought the sun rose and set with Hurst, so when they’d almost lost him, he was distraught. He’d called me to let me know and kept me up to date throughout the surgery and recovery, but it’d all been surreal. Hurst was one of the pillars of the town, without him, it would just feel weak and crumble.

Then again, I kind of felt the same about losing Pops. I might not have been at home, but it felt like I had a spine of steel with him behind me. When he died, I lost that, and it’d felt like every step I took was off balance.

I still felt like that, but I was doing everything I could to build my own spine of steel now, using what he’d taught me to do it.

Shit, I missed him so much.

“So,” Will continued, and I was grateful to have the distraction from the dark path my thoughts had taken me down. “Then he suggests that Cole should run for the position instead.”

Mom and Charmaine had been about to take a sip out of their wine glasses when he announced this, and the glasses remained suspended in front of them, no sips taken. Heck, Logan had his bottle of beer pressed against his lips, but even he froze in place.

With no one saying it, I put us all out of our misery. “And? Is he going to do it?”

“Jesus, Bexley,” Dad clipped, slapping his hand on the table. “Aren’t you even slightly superstitious? Now that you’ve put that possibility out into the universe, the likelihood of it coming true is higher.”

“If that was the case, I’m fairly certain me saying I was going to win the lottery tonight would happen,” I snickered. “Plus, it was Hurst who put it out there first.”

Looking at Will, Dad pleaded, “Please tell me he said no, too.”

“Nope,” he shook his head, bringing his chair back down to all four legs.

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