Wallflower: A Small Town Romance (Redemption Book 5) by Jessica Prince

Author:Jessica Prince [Prince, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jessica Prince Books LLC
Published: 2021-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Willow

“That son of a bitch,” Aurora hissed between her teeth. “He’s dead. That’s it. I’m gonna kill him so dead. And I’ve watched like a bazillion murder mystery movies and serial killer docs and all those true crime channels, so I totally know how to do it and get away with it. His body will never be found. You have my word on that.”

So, the whole grabbing-life-by-the-balls thing had started off pretty rocky, but it was okay. All right, it wasn’t okay. It sucked something fierce, and the sting of Stone’s rejection still left my skin feeling raw and exposed. But I did my best to pull myself up by my bootstraps—whatever that meant.

I gave myself the weekend to wallow in my sadness. I ate all the junk food and watched movies that made me cry until my eyes were red and nearly swollen shut. Then, when Monday morning rolled around, I got dressed in one of my nicest outfits and spent extra time on my hair and makeup, wearing it all like armor, then headed off to work, determined to keep my head up.

Apparently I hadn’t done as good a job at it as I’d hoped, because it took no time at all for Lark to realize something was wrong. After work, she and Aurora had all but dragged me to a local sandwich shop for dinner, and at their insistence, I dove in, telling them about the whole disastrous event, starting with dinner with my sisters and ending with Stone’s devastating rejection.

I considered it a win that I hadn’t started crying again when I relayed the story to them, but that was probably because I’d run my tear ducts dry over the past couple of days.

Lark reached over and patted Aurora’s arm. “All right, easy there, psycho. I’m all for hurting the bastard, but I’m thinking more along the lines of a nice, hard junk punch. Not something that could get us put away for life.”

Aurora gave her a sour look. “Did you not hear the part where I said I’m basically a genius at getting away with murder? Your lack of faith in me really hurts.”

She rolled her eyes at Aurora and looked back at me. “Just ignore her. I’m so sorry, honey.”

I looked down into my glass, stirring around the lemon wedge in my water. “It is what it is, right? I’ll be fine.”

“Yeah. You will be,” Aurora said with a serious expression. “You know why? Because you’re a beautiful, brilliant glowing ball of sunshine and kitten fur and rainbows, and he’s just a big crap cloud.”

“Poetic,” Lark deadpanned.

“I thought so. Anyway, he’s an asshole, and he doesn’t deserve you.”

“She’s absolutely right.” Lark nodded in agreement. “You can do so much better than him.”

Aurora lifted a finger. “Also, I’m sorry to say this baby cakes, but your sister is an asshole. She’s out. I’m your sister now, and I’ll do right by you, sugar.”

Lark gave her a disgusted look. “It doesn’t work that way, Rora. And that’s still her sister.

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