Final Shot by Kaylea Cross

Author:Kaylea Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Crimson Point Protectors
Publisher: Kaylea Cross Inc.
Published: 2022-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Everleigh let out a frustrated sigh and forced herself to step back from the table where she had everything laid out on a cutting mat. It was either that or throw something.

Come try our beginners quilting class, they’d said. It’ll be fun, they’d said.

What had she been thinking?

“Need a hand?” the instructor asked, starting toward her with an enthusiastic smile.

“Yes, please, before I have a temper tantrum.” Mia, Jaia and Kerrigan had all donated old military T-shirts for her to use on her quilt. She was using the designs on the front, or in some cases parts of them, to make a simple patchwork of squares within a thin black grid of something called sashing. Or at least that was the plan.

The lady laughed lightly. “No need for that.”

“Told ya to start with an easier fabric,” Marley said from down the row, busy cutting her fabric into neat little piles of perfectly straight, measured pieces of pink, black, white and pale green florals. She was making a pretty nine-patch quilt to take to the beach for future wine picnics.

Everleigh should have picked something like that too.

“Marley, don’t make me cut you with this thing,” she warned, handing her rotary cutter over to the instructor.

It was sharp as a damn razor. She’d already nicked the edge of her index finger twice while trying to cut along the straight edge of the thick plastic quilting ruler and narrowly avoided slicing off the tip of her thumb. And all she had to show for her efforts was a small pile of not-so-straight strips and squares.

Marley grinned and kept going, not even pretending to be scared. “You don’t have the guts. And if you did, I still wouldn’t be worried. I’d have you disarmed and flat on the floor in two seconds.”

Annoying, but true. Marley was badass as far as Everleigh was concerned.

“Here, let me help,” the instructor said, stepping up to Everleigh’s cutting station. “Your friend’s right, T-shirt fabric is really hard for beginners to work with because of the stretch. But don’t worry, it’ll be a lot easier once you get the fusible backing on. Then we can trim them to size and they’ll be much more stable.”

“Thank you,” she murmured, stepping out of the way and glancing down the row of tables at the others. “Oh, wow, Nadia, you’re almost done cutting your fabric already?” Everleigh had met Nadia and her adopted sister Anaya at the book club. When she’d sent the email proposing this class, both of them had jumped at it.

“I hate her,” Mia muttered from the other row, scowling in mingled concentration and frustration as she cut another strip with her rotary cutter.

“Don’t say that,” Nadia teased, “because I was thinking about helping you cut the rest of yours once I finish mine.”

“Okay, I take it back,” Mia said.

“I don’t know what you bitches are even arguing about, because I. Am. Done,” Kerrigan announced with a big smile as she finished the last cut with a flourish

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