Silver Bullet: A Lou Thorne Thriller by Kory M. Shrum

Author:Kory M. Shrum
Language: eng
Format: epub

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Piper didn’t need to be asked twice. When Mel said that she wanted a coffee, that she was feeling the sleepiness of the long afternoon, Piper had volunteered to run down to Café du Monde and grab coffees for them both.

She took her time, weaving her way through the Quarter’s foot traffic, listening to a brassy showtune floating her way from some side street. She recognized the melody but couldn’t remember which movie she’d heard it from. The sky was darkening, turning gray. Storm clouds were on the horizon.

Fight for her. That was Mel’s advice.

Yet a little voice made her hesitate. Maybe it’s just supposed to go this way. Maybe we’re not meant to be together. I always knew she was too good for me. Maybe this is the universe’s way of telling me that I can’t have what I want.

That’s bullshit, she thought. And this proclamation was in Dani’s voice. That’s utter bullshit and you know it.

Maybe this was what Mel meant by fight for her. It wasn’t necessarily that she had to beat Scarlett down in the streets or something. It was simply that Piper needed to make up her own mind, a hundred and ten percent, and get on board with the idea that not only was Dani the one she wanted but Dani was the person she deserved.

It was a hard pill to swallow, and her insecurities played in the back of her mind even after she reached the front of the ordering line at Café du Monde and got their coffees to go. At the last minute, Piper ordered some beignets too. She’d been trying to cut back on her sugar, and she already put three heaping scoops into her coffee whenever she drank it.

All this girl trouble had her craving sweets or some kind of comfort food. So it was either the beignets or it was Mama Kannie’s baked mac and cheese for dinner—or maybe it would be the beignets now and the baked mac and cheese for dinner.

I’ll regret it at the gym tomorrow, she thought. Assuming those two are still gonna work out with me.

The morose thought twisted her heart as she took a bite of her first beignet, a white puff of powdered sugar escaping into the air with each melancholic bite.

Piper sat down on a bench outside Café du Monde and watched the horse and buggies line up on the street outside the park.

Fight for her. Fight.

Piper pulled out her phone and searched her contacts for Scarlett’s number. She opened a new text message thread and stared at the blinking cursor for a long time.

Just keep it simple. Direct.

Hey, she wrote, and pressed send. Are you at work?

Though Piper knew visiting Scarlett at work was a bad idea. How many times had Scarlett said she resented their friends popping into the shop and seeing her in her apron like that? More than once, she’d complained about the low-key rage she felt whenever it happened.

The chat bubble appeared on Piper’s phone, and her heart skipped a beat.

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