Edgewater Road by Shelley Shepard Gray

Author:Shelley Shepard Gray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 2022-01-19T22:18:49+00:00

CHAPTER 18

Nothing Bo was saying made Lincoln happy. “Tell me that again,” he ordered when Bo paused to take a breath.

“Which part? The online dating, the pie, or that Ramon is going to be doing yard work over there tomorrow?”

He knew Bo was being half-serious and half-needling just to get a rise out of him, but that didn’t make the conversation any easier to take. “You know what I’m talking about,” he bit out. “I want to hear about Jennifer, dating, and this, this Phil.”

“It’s actually Phillip. It seems Jennifer wants a relationship, so she signed up. After messaging him for a spell, she liked him well enough to actually talk to him on the phone.”

“What did they talk about?”

Bo gave him a sideways look. “Like I know the answer to that. For what it’s worth, I did tell Jennifer that you weren’t going to be happy about her connecting with strangers on the internet.”

“But she didn’t listen to you, did she?”

“Why should she? She’s a grown woman. Plus, you ain’t her father, and she ain’t your responsibility.”

He gritted his teeth to keep from spouting off everything he was thinking—which was that while he definitely was not her father, but he wanted Jennifer to be his responsibility. After rolling his neck to loosen some of the tension sinking in, he snapped, “Anything else I need to know?”

Bo’s eyes glinted. “About Jennifer or everything else?”

After years of working together, Bo had picked today to become a jokester. “Everything else. What’s going on with Mason?”

“He seems to have settled in. You know he worked hard on the repairs to that house. Plus, he says he’s been staying away from his old buddies.”

“Do you believe him?”

“I do.” He shrugged again. “We’ll see if he continues to walk the line.”

Lincoln nodded. He’d learned that half the work of keeping someone on the outside was giving them opportunities to make the right choices. Trust was a factor too. If a person didn’t want to change, he wouldn’t. It was as simple as that.

“I need to head up to Madisonville and meet with a guy who’s due to get paroled next week. You good on the construction sites?”

“Seth is heading over to the one in town tomorrow. Charlie and Emmitt are at another. They’re supposed to reach out to me if they have trouble.”

“Sounds good.” He stood up. Though it was tempting to walk away, he knew Bo deserved more than that. “Hey. Thanks for checking up on Jennifer today and talking to her. Thanks for filling me in too.”

“No prob. Do you want some advice?”

He raised one eyebrow. “That depends. Is it going to tick me off?”

Bo half-smiled. “Probably . . . or not.”

“What is on your mind, then?”

“If you like this woman, you need to speak up and do something about it.”

He did like Jennifer. He liked her a lot, but that didn’t mean they had a future, did it? “Come on. We both know it’s not that easy.”

“You’re acting like any relationship is easy.

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