It Isn't Over by Jamie Bennett

Author:Jamie Bennett [Bennett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-04-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

I stared at my phone because it couldn’t be right. “This can’t be right,” I said out loud, and the woman who sat across the trailer from me asked if I could be quiet while people were working. She had gone to school with Bo’s mother, and she and I were not friends.

There were only a few minutes left before we could head out and I counted to sixty, five times, and then stood and ran to my car. I was meeting Jack for dinner in Chattanooga because he’d been doing more interviews, this time for a big article where the reporter wanted to go into depth, not just ask some quick questions for the radio or a podcast or something. Jack’s publicist had set it up and the record company was pretty much insisting that he speak to the woman, as much as he’d wanted to avoid it. My own interview requests had dwindled to a trickle once his publicity people had stepped in, but he still needed to drum up interest in his music.

I’d been wondering how he would deal with a lot of probing questions, how he would answer this interviewer today. But right now, I was more interested in what my banking app had told me. Because it couldn’t have been right.

I called him on the way into the city but he didn’t pick up, and he was late getting to the restaurant, too—late enough to make me worry and think that he wasn’t going to show. When he did come, he was running.

“I’m sorry I’m late. I’m sorry,” he told me. He looked incredibly ticked off.

“It’s ok.”

“No, it’s not. I know you thought I wasn’t coming. You get upset when I’m not on time.” Jack frowned at the menu in front of him on the table. “I tried to get out of there but it was like an inquisition.”

Despite my own questions about my bank balance, I wanted to hear what had happened. “What do you mean? Did the reporter get all over you about the authorship of the song?”

He pushed his hand through his hair. “Among other things. She wanted information about you, for example, and she already seemed to have a lot.”

A chill ran through me. “What do you mean? What information did she have?”

He frowned even more. “She knew that you participated in pageants as a kid. You never mentioned that you won all the talent stuff.”

I waved my hand impatiently. “What else did she know?”

“She asked me about your husband. She was aware that he’d died but not how, if that’s what you’re worried about.”

“I don’t want her to know anything about me,” I said.

“It seemed like she’d only gotten what’s already public information. But she tried to find out if ‘Nothing’s Changed’ is about him. I said that obviously it was about loss, something that most people know way too much about. I wasn’t going to tell her anything, not really.”

“What did she ask about you?”

He gulped from his water glass before he answered.

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