Reece by Lori Wilde & Carolyn Greene

Author:Lori Wilde & Carolyn Greene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: L&C

10

When Reece learned Lanie planned to gather signatures on her petition while on their outing, he sulked.

Lanie was glad Winnie had been content to stay in the backyard and play with Barney. At least she wouldn’t have to argue with Reece about letting the horse ride up front.

“Do all males of the human species go to school to learn how to do that?” she asked.

“Do what?”

“Sulk. My brothers had it down to an art; my father sulked around my grandmother, and now you’re doing it. It must be a conspiracy.”

Reece had the grace to look ashamed. In turn, Lanie tried to be inconspicuous about her signature gathering. After she had been driving for about an hour, she said she needed to stop at the grocery store for spaghetti ingredients.

Just as she’d hoped, the store was packed with Saturday morning shoppers. She left Reece waiting in the truck and returned a short while later with tomatoes, peppers, onion, and a page full of signatures.

She even recruited a couple of volunteers to help with the Stop the Highway campaign.

Lanie drove where Reece directed, being careful to shift gears at precisely the right instant. She still had a little trouble on corners, but Reece patiently talked her through them.

He even pointed out a number of historical homes in the area and told the background of each, but Lanie was concentrating so hard on driving that she wasn’t able to enjoy the little tour.

As they passed the forestry tower, Reece told her of the time he took a dare and climbed to the top, walking backward up two hundred steps.

Armed with spray paint and a camera, he initialed and dated the hatch door while his high school buddies watched from the ground.

Then, as proof, he took a picture of the underside of the firewatcher’s small room.

He descended the steps, the paint can in one coat pocket and the cell phone in the other, to find his friends gone and the local sheriff waiting for him.

“What happened then?” Lanie asked.

“He went easy on me. Instead of pressing charges, he made me paint the underside of the tower house. Then, as a community service, I had to paint an elderly lady’s house. Sheriff Thompson even made me buy the brushes and stuff with my own money.”

Reece pointed for her to take the next left, which brought them back to Sanderson Road.

“From then on, I’ve hated painting. I’d hire somebody before I ever pick up a brush again,” he said.

Lanie smiled as she recalled the original “huge favor” she’d planned on winning. But more than having her house painted, she wanted her job back.

She smoothly turned onto Judestown Road and headed for home. She felt confident she would win the bet after all.

“I would never have guessed you’d do such a thing,” she said. “Weren’t your parents mad?”

“Nah. When the sheriff took me home, all they said was, ‘What’d he do this time?’”

Lanie took her eyes from the road long enough to see the look of pure mischief on his face.

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