Something Beautiful: A Small Town Love-After-Loss Romance by Kait Weaver-Smith

Author:Kait Weaver-Smith [Weaver-Smith, Kait]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Weaver-Smith Press
Published: 2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

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“How often do you take him pie?” I asked, looking down at the small container Liv held in her hands.

She shrugged. “I don’t know. I don’t keep track. Maybe every other time I go to the store?”

I made a noise in the back of my throat, unaware if my curiosity was born of jealousy or a genuine interest in understanding the motive behind her trying to befriend Colt.

Years ago, he was someone I would’ve considered family. We were inseparable in high school, doing all the stupid shit that we could get away with in a town this small. Colt was the brother I never had.

I knew he hadn’t had an easy life. His mother died when he was young, and in a shocking series of events that rattled everyone in Rose Hill, Colt’s older sister Cora was one of three teenage girls who went missing while we were in high school. To this day, no one knows what happened. It shocked the whole county. Shit like that just didn’t happen in towns this small. But first, it was Jennie Seager, then Summer Higel. At that point, a strict curfew had been put into place, no one under the age of eighteen was allowed after dusk without an escort.

Everything was fine for a few months.

Until Cora snuck out to go see her boyfriend. Colt was the one who found her bedroom empty. Her boyfriend said she never made it.

After that, Colt went silent. The happy, goofy, boy I’d grown up with was gone. Local authorities said they did their best, but none of the girls were ever found. Eventually, they were all three declared dead, and the case went cold.

Neither he nor his father were ever the same. The second we turned eighteen, he disappeared. His Dad told me he took off to some city near Yellowstone and did a lot of volunteer work for the local fire department and Search and Rescue team. I tried to reach out. I called and texted him once or twice a month until his number no longer went through.

But then my whole life was flipped upside down.

I think he would’ve stayed away for the rest of his life. Until fate took another deadly turn. News of his father’s passing brought Colt back home, like a ghost from the past. I remember seeing him for the first time in many years, standing on the porch of his father’s old house, a shadow of the boy I used to run around with. An unruly beard, and unkempt hair– he was almost unrecognizable.

He sold his childhood home, used the money to settle into a small cabin in the woods, and took over the general store. I knew what it was like to find peace in solitude, but that didn’t mean it was healthy. I saw that now. Thankfully, I had people to pull me out of the darkness. Colt was content to become one with the shadows, making no attempt to reconnect with the people he’d left behind.

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