Seeking to Belong: Wolftale Series~Book 1 by M. Ekman

Author:M. Ekman [Ekman, M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2021-04-02T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Ruth was surprised to find that there wasn’t anyone out on the streets of town, unlike earlier. Sure it was later in the afternoon, but definitely not late enough for the entire territory to be so quiet. Fortunately, Bobby’s shop was the first building on main street, so Ruth didn’t have to remain outside in the odd quietness for long.

She found Bobby standing behind the cash register with an overly bright smile on his face. Ruth rolled her eyes, “What did Violet say to you?”

Bobby gave a chuckle and thankfully dropped the painted on expression. Before he could speak, Ruth rushed to request, “Please, can we just pretend like nothing happened? You don’t need to act differently just because—wait, is that why no one is outside? Does everyone know what happened?”

Rubbing the back of his neck Bobby responded, “Unfortunately, you guys weren’t exactly quiet towards the end and there were a few people who overheard in the mess hall. If it had just been Violet who’d overheard no one else would know, but…”

“Ugh,” Ruth put her head into her hand, “oh just forget it. You big bunch of gossips.”

Even though Ruth was frustrated about everyone knowing her business, she wasn’t really mad at anyone. In such a small pack it would be impossible for people not latch onto a snippet of any sort of gossip and spread it like wildfire. Every incident would be blown out of proportion, at least, if the cleared out town were anything to go by.

“They don’t mean to be,” Bobby apologized.

Ruth forced a smile, “Don’t worry about it. Let’s just start working on something. A diversion would be welcome.”

Bobby came out from behind the counter and, with a smirk on his face, gave Ruth a heavy pat on the back. “Thata girl. I actually could use a woman’s touch. I need to set up a display…”

Bobby led Ruth to the center of the store where a series of boxes were sitting around a squat white table that had a large indentation in the center. A shipment of new paints had come in that were supposed to be the best money could buy, so he wanted them shown off.

Ruth had no idea what would show off a bunch of cans of paint, but she figured she could stack them in a pyramid pattern so that they would have no chance of being missed. When Ruth glanced back to ask Bobby’s opinion she saw that he was already back behind the front counter.

‘Oh, well,’ she thought.

The display wouldn’t be unique but with as many boxes of paint Ruth had to go through it would definitely be big. For the next hour or so Ruth worked in silence opening boxes and stacking cans, only pausing once to ask Bobby for a ladder. When she was finished Ruth called him over to make sure she’d done an okay job.

She assumed Bobby would release her since the sign on his shop stated that it was already passed closing time.

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