Fly In Fly Out by Evie Snow

Author:Evie Snow [Snow, Evie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-912305-13-1
Publisher: Evie Snow

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Ken Blaine was held up talking to the cops and didn’t make it over to Evangeline’s Rest until late that afternoon. By then, Jo was fast asleep from a combination of exhaustion and pain medication. Stephen had stayed with her until her eyes closed and her breathing evened out. He’d liked seeing her in his bed, even if the thought of what had put her there made him psycho- furious. He’d never had a girl stay over in his room when he was a kid, and he had a gut feeling that his teenage self would approve of him having Jo there right now. He stood up and brushed Jo’s cheek with his fingers before leaving the room and quietly closing the door.

With Jo settled, Stephen, Clayton, and Scott migrated outside to the porch to have a beer and collectively brood. Angie had left to work her afternoon shift at the Evangeline’s Rest cellar door, and Rob had gone out with Stephen’s Uncle Les and Ken Blaine to see if they could find any tire tracks indicating how the bastard who shot Jo had gotten around their farm. Stephen would be out there himself, had wanted to go, but Jo had asked him to stick around.

The police had already ruled out anything premeditated, because only Scott and Amy had known that Jo was driving down with him that day. Instead, they strongly suspected it had been someone hitting Jo by accident when shooting rabbits. Stephen hoped to hell his dad or the police found something soon. He was still having trouble quelling the rage that had been with him since he’d first spotted Jo limping towards him, blood rushing down her leg.

“So you and Jo Blaine, eh?” Clayton asked Stephen after a few minutes of scowling introspection on all counts.

“Yeah. Since a week ago.” Stephen narrowed his eyes at Scott. “Someone’s been playing matchmaker.” He’d only worked out that’s what was happening when Scott had backed off so quickly in the hospital.

“Don’t know what you’re talking about,” Scott said, feigning innocence.

Clayton gave Scott a surprised look. “Wasn’t Jo your girlfriend for years?”

“Yeah, what’s with that?” Stephen demanded, still smarting that he’d been kicked out of Jo’s hospital room so she and Scott could talk. Yeah, she’d told him they’d just talked about how to stop their respective families from getting too worked up about stuff, but Stephen didn’t see why he couldn’t have been present for that conversation.

“We’ve never been together except in this genius’s imagination.” Scott gestured to Stephen with his can of beer. “Jo and Amy Blaine are family, have been since I was ten and Jo was twelve. She’s like my sister.”

“How come we didn’t know you were friends before she came to that Christmas thing when you were kids?” Clayton asked.

Scott’s expression went blank. “You’ll have to ask Jo why. Not my story to tell.”

“If you’re in it, must have been your story too,” Stephen growled.

“Can’t. Sorry.” Scott shrugged, distracted by the sight of a car approaching the house.

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