Page 157 of Driftwood Daffodil 2

“This is bullshit!”

“Oh shut up.” Kendall grumbled. “What are you going to do? Dig him up and kill him again?”

“Maybe.”

“Hey?” That was my brother they were talking about.

“Sorry.” Atlee nodded at me then looked at his sister. “We’ll talk about this later.”

“No we won’t.”

“Do you hear this shit?” Atlee said to me.

“At least she doesn’t go after people with a bat.” Compared to me, he had it easy.

Technically correcting Kendall’s behaviour was Romeo’s job, but I was pretty sure he didn’t know she existed. He acted like he didn’t anyway.

“Who went after someone with a bat?” Kendall asked.

“Nova.” Atlee answered.

I almost missed that, I was too busy watching the old Ford pickup pulling into the parking lot. But the second what Atlee said registered, I snapped attention to him.

“How do you know that?”

Did my father tell everyone and leave me for last? That would be typical behaviour.

“I was there.”

My face dropped. “You were there?”

“It was fucking fantastic. She flew across the room at Romeo all angry and cute…” He chuckled. “It was like Tinkerbelle attacking the Jolly Green Giant. The bat was even pink.”

“Huh?” Kendall muttered. “I knew I liked her.”

Was he fucking kidding me? “Did it every occur to you to tell me?”

“Why would I do that?”

The only body anyone would be digging up would be his, so his father could identify it.

“Come here.”

“Why?”

“So I can hit you.”

“Okay, buuut…. You might want to look over there first.”

I looked in the direction Atlee nodded and damn near punched my driver’s side window out. Nova wore something red alright. I could see the bra clearly through her white shirt of her uniform. And so could every-fucking-one else.

“NOVA!” I barked louder than I ever had before. “Get the fuck over here. NOW!”

If the smug smirk on her face wasn’t enough to push me to my breaking point, then happy little skip she did across the parking lor sure as fuck was.

When she pranced her ass up to us, the smile on her face widened. “Good morning.”

Kendall muffled a chuckle while Atlee stared at her tits and dreamily sang, “Yes it is.”

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