Welcome to the Goat Rodeo by Welcome to the Goat Rodeo (epub)

Author:Welcome to the Goat Rodeo (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

Signs and Vague Directions

H eather never expected her grandfather would leave her anything in his will, not after she’d called him a cheat at a family picnic checkers game years before. Or perhaps the inheritance was his way of avenging himself.

Mom got the house. Heather inherited the contents of the two-car garage—stacks of highway sign blanks, paint, stencils, steel posts, carriage bolts and nuts that he’d pilfered from his work on the state road crew. Hardly anything she could use in her bakery and lunch room.

Luckily, since her mom didn’t own a car to park in the garage, Heather was under no time pressure to dispose of the mountain of steel. If Sheriff Best had been more responsive to her parking problem, she might have forgotten about it altogether.

A pest control guy who worked at night spraying restaurants had taken to parking his panel truck in front of the shop all day, every day. The garish cartoon “Roachinator” painted on its side, chartreuse bug guts oozing out from under a boot, was seriously damaging her lunch business. She’d politely asked the guy to move it, but he’d just rolled his bloodshot eyes and walked away.

She didn’t dare push Sheriff Best too hard. At her daughter Kayla’s urging, Heather had been trying to build a bridge of intimacy to the sheriff—a doughnut at a time. After Heather’s divorce, Kayla had taken inventory of the available men in Dawesport and chose for her mother the same boy Heather had mooned over in high school. Back then Best, quarterback and prom king, had been out of her class, but now Kayla was convinced her mother’s business success had elevated her to his level.

While Heather wasn’t convinced that she needed a new husband, sometimes her body ached to be touched. And her daughter was no doubt right in pointing out the slim prospects in an Ohio River town with no industries except one coal mine to hold the local boys after they left school. That was the main reason Kayla had moved to Boston.

Best was still tall, lean, and square-jawed, but had the mottled leather-wallet skin of the avid fisherman. So much more masculine than her ex, Tommy, who had the muscles of an accountant and a bald head shaped like a pear.

Heather’s daughter had helped her resuscitate her looks after the divorce. She’d always watched her figure, and Kayla assured her the newly blond hair, whitened teeth, and microdermabrasion had taken ten years off her age. Not that the sheriff had noticed.

After a week of the Roachinator, though, her long-range strategy to solve her “loneliness problem” (as her daughter termed it), could no longer hold back the streak of temper that her ex had joked about early in their marriage, then used to skewer her at the divorce hearing.

So she decided to ask the sheriff for help. It could serve as a barometer of how much success her campaign was having.

As she took the coffeepot on a tour of the dining room that morning, refilling cups, she took a deep breath and approached Best’s table.

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