Cover Me Up (The Bridgestones Of Montana Book 1) by Juliana Stone

Author:Juliana Stone [Stone, Juliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781988474687
Published: 2023-12-19T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

Millie Sue locked the door behind Jennifer. She took a few moments to just breathe, then turned around and let her gaze wander the now-empty bar. She was in a weird place. Tired as hell because she hadn’t slept much the last few nights, but wired and jumpy. It had been a busy night. A lot of folks had come out thinking there would be a repeat performance of Thursday night, but she’d quickly dashed everyone’s hopes by staying behind the bar—and the fact that one bona fide country superstar had been a no-show pretty much put a nail in that coffin.

A part of her thought Cal would drop by, but every time the door flew open, it was some other man who appeared. And she was fine with that, because she wasn’t in the right head space for Cal Bridgestone.

It should bother her. How much she thought of him. How much she wanted to see him even though she was still mad as hell. Big Bend had been invaded by paparazzi, of all things. Here. In this town out in the middle of Nowhere, Montana. She’d had Taz escort three different men out of the bar because they’d been trying to take her photo without permission, while asking all sorts of inappropriate questions. She wasn’t used to that crap and resented the hell out of the fact that the Sundowner had been invaded by men looking to profit off a picture or juicy gossip. Men who didn’t belong in her corner of the world.

Yet, as the silence wrapped itself around her, Millie found herself drifting in a wash of nostalgia and melancholy. So much so that she found herself heading for the jukebox, her tired body suddenly as wired as her brain. She wasn’t sure how long she stared down at the thing, but eventually, she leaned against the machine and dug into the front pocket of her jeans until she found a quarter. The jukebox was as old as the Sundowner and still loaded with all the original tunes that were now classics. She deposited the coin and chose the same song she always did when she was alone and feeling blue, a ballad by Patsy Cline that tugged on every heartstring she owned.

The lights were low, and the smell of beer and fried food permeated the air, like every other honkytonk she’d ever been in. Smell was memory, and as Patsy began to sing, Millie Sue swayed to the melody, singing along and harmonizing with a woman who’d been dead for decades. Her words, the power of her voice, was still very much alive, and her crazy longing for a man who didn’t love her back was as palpable this night as it was the day Cline recorded it.

The last note lingered, and, surprised, Millie swiped at tears that stung the corners of her eyes. Would this feeling ever go away? Would she always be half happy and half sad? Could she live the rest of her life like this?

“My God, Mills, get your head on straight.

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