The Good Boss by Scott Hildreth

Author:Scott Hildreth [Hildreth, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carina Press
Published: 2017-08-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Terra

The days zoomed past, allowing the weeks to escape me, one after the other. Suddenly, it seemed everything came crashing in around me at once, leaving no time to plan the wedding.

I buried my head in my hands. “I’m so nervous I feel sick.”

“Everything’s taken care of,” Michelle said. “And, you’ve got months left to fix anything that comes up. Take a breath and finish your drink.”

I did a quick countdown, looked up, and then tossed my hands in the air. “Two months. That’s it.”

“Settle down.” She shook her head and then took a leisurely drink. “You’re a dramatic bitch sometimes.”

“It’s scary.”

“I’ll tell you what’s scary.” She glanced over each shoulder, and then leaned forward. “Cap fucked me in the ass last night. That’s scary.”

“Oh, my God,” I gasped. “Really?”

She wagged her eyebrows. “Mmhhmm.”

“Did you like it?” The words came out on a bed of laughter.

She shrugged. “It was weird, but yeah, I did.”

“Michael and I do it all the time.”

Her eyes went wide. “Seriously?”

“Uh-huh. I like it.”

“I liked it.” She lowered her voice to a whisper. “But I’m afraid my butt is going to get messed up and then, you know, stuff will start falling out.”

I barked out a laugh and shook my head. “It doesn’t work like that.”

“You sure?”

“If that were the case, I would have left a trail walking in here.”

She let out a laugh. “You’re gross.”

“You brought it up.”

“So, are you ready? I mean, mentally?”

“For the wedding?”

She nodded. “Yeah.”

Her changing the subject, and getting me to laugh, helped immensely. “I think so. It’s just stressful.”

“It’ll all be over before you know it, and then you’ll feel like there’s nothing to do. For you guys, nothing’s really going to change. You’re living together. You’re already boning. There’s not much left.”

She had a point. I’d been convinced for some time that the wedding was going to change everything. In reality, at least for Michael and me, it wasn’t going to change anything.

“I know nothing’s going to change, but I want the ceremony to be perfect.”

“It will be. Sitting here and worrying isn’t going to do anything. Look at your dad, you worried about him until you were a walking skeleton. Now look. It was all for nothing.”

“Yeah. I suppose you’re right.”

I hated to ask, but every time I saw Michelle, it drove me crazy that she hadn’t heard from her father. Feeling that if she’d heard anything she’d let me know, but worried nonetheless that she knew something, I opted to ask.

“Still nothing from your father?”

She coughed a laugh. “Nope. I’m telling you, he’s fish bait.”

“Michelle!”

“He is. We hired a private investigator. He did a search of phone records, and found some things out. The night he went missing, he talked to Sal. Then, he went to the bus station, bought a ticket, and nobody’s heard from him since. Mom talked to Sal, and he doesn’t know anything. He couldn’t even remember that they’d talked.”

“That’s just weird.”

“If he worked at Walmart as a greeter? Yeah, it’d be weird.

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