Red's Hot Honky-Tonk Bar (That Business Between Us Book 1) by Morsi Pamela

Author:Morsi, Pamela [Morsi, Pamela]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Gnarly Wool Publishing
Published: 2019-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

18

The night of the Harvest Party was as Halloweenlike as a night could get with surprisingly chilly fall air, a full moon and hundreds of little ghouls and goblins out in the neighborhood with their trick-or-treat bags before it even got dark.

Kelly had put Kendra in the stroller and agreed to walk Daniel and Olivia around the neighborhood before bringing them to the party at school.

Red carefully dressed in a button-down shirt tucked into conservative slacks. She’d tried to twist her mile of hair into some kind of respectable updo. After the third failure, she finally settled on braids that crisscrossed and looped around her head.

“Pippi Longstocking grows up to be Mrs. Olsen,” she said to herself in the mirror with disgust.

Fearing lateness would be worse than bad hair, she hurried to make her way down to the school.

Inside the gym at Cambridge Elementary, the scene was controlled chaos. There were games going on, art displays and science projects. The dance floor boasted no actual dancers, but there were a fair number of goblins milling about. And a DJ was playing such seasonal favorites as “One-Eyed, One- Horned, Flying Purple People Eater.”

Red looked around and realized that she’d missed one important detail about the party. Even the adults came in costume. She should have come as herself, she thought, and she might have been less conspicuous.

With a few directions from a helpful Klingon, Red managed to locate the first-grade cupcake table. Sarah was nowhere in sight, but there was a woman behind the table. She was tall and willowy, like a dancer, and her straight blond hair was pulled back into a ponytail of casual perfection. Her focus was intent and she was busily rearranging everything on the table. “Hi, I guess this is first-grade cupcake,” Red said.

The woman looked up. Her eyes were dark brown, heavily fringed, and her skin was flawless. She gave Red a long look. “Cullens?”

“Yes.”

“I’m Tasha Shakelford,” she said. “And you’re late.”

Red glanced quickly at her watch. It read 6:01.

“Sorry, I got held up by a crowd of pudgy Pokemoners.” Tasha didn’t seem amused.

“Carson is a no-show, so the onus is on you.”

“Huh?”

“Carson. Sarah Carson,” Tasha clarified. “She’s not coming. She says that Elliot is sick. But then she always manages some kind of excuse for everything. I’ve got to handle membership fees at MiniMules. So you’ll have to distribute the cupcakes yourself.”

That sounded fine to Red. In fact, it was extremely preferable to the alternative of working next to this brusque, unsmiling, former girlfriend of Cam’s.

“Sure,” Red said with confidence. “I’d be happy to do that.”

“Then get over here and let me show you the setup.”

How hard can it be? Red thought to herself, but made her way to the workers’ side of the table hastily. Despite what Sarah might have been hoping for, Red wasn’t interested in any way in fomenting a power struggle with Cam’s ex.

The cupcakes were adorable. They had mostly orange or white icing with jack-o’-lantern faces. There were several different patterns, but they were all delightfully cute.

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