For Love Or Honey by Staci Hart

Author:Staci Hart [Hart, Staci]
Language: eng
Format: epub

18

Here, Kitty, Kitty

GRANT

Jo sang along to the radio from my passenger seat, the windows down and her hair flying as we made our way into town a week later.

And what a week it’d been.

When I wasn’t with Jo, I was running around town, working on deals with the farms on my docket, besides the Blums, but I’d made no ground with any of them. One of the farm owners was in bad health and had recently been admitted into the hospital. His son was circling like a vulture, even going so far as to reach out to me for dinner to probe me for numbers, should his father die. A few weeks ago, I would have only seen it as good fortune. But thanks to a newly found conscience, the exchange left me feeling unclean. I sent a Texas-sized gift basket to the hospital and hoped the son wouldn’t get any of the Moose Munch.

I’d been summoned to Austin a couple times by my father, but I hadn’t seen him in Lindenbach since the day he arrived, which was almost worse. I’d spent an inordinate amount of time wondering what he was going to pull and how it would hurt, so much that it bordered on paranoia. But I kept telling myself it was a good thing. Maybe he’d left me to my own devices as a sign of faith. Maybe he’d let me do my thing, his appearance strictly an act of observance.

I only wished I didn’t know better. And that I’d made more progress.

But every night, Jo was in my bed. Every day, she was in my thoughts. I’d begun to gently plant those seeds regarding her rights, though thus far, we’d never made it past joking. In fact, it’d become the joke, since it took a dangerous thing between us and made it small. Better than ignoring it, I figured, assuming she felt the same.

We were on our way to an event downtown for Glow Up, Lindenbach. The Blum sisters had launched a whole campaign, were in the process of planning a fundraiser dinner, had shirts and signs and bumper stickers printed up, and had gotten together with one of the local construction companies to start revamping Main Street. The money wasn’t there yet, but it was imminent, and today was the first collection.

Donations would be accepted while the town got together to start unboarding shop windows and cleaning them up. The Blums had come up with displays for all the windows that marketed to new businesses. We’d be pulling down signs and sweeping out spaces. Cleaning windows and setting up displays. Poppy was working on sourcing local businesses in the nearby metro areas to open up shop in Lindenbach.

The swiftness and efficacy with which the town had mobilized was astounding. Just like everything else here.

When we pulled into a spot near the park at the end of Main Street, the sidewalk was full of people in work clothes heading into town. A pack of guys near Jo’s age spotted us, leaning in and whacking each other on the arms.

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