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Come inside.
Join me.
Don’t leave.
But none of it would be fair. She had a career, and so did I. I wouldn’t ask her to stay, and I had a feeling she wouldn’t ask me to leave.
Wren straightened and grabbed her bag. She was gone only a few seconds later.
And I was alone again.
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WREN
Strawberry Springs Neighborhood Watch
Hu Gh:@Dale Garrett, you want some turkeys to freeze for the Thanksgiving season?
Comments:
Dale Garrett: No ... that’s not how this works.
Hu Gh: I’ve got fresh meat right here and you’re turning me down?
Tammy Jane: My man wants to know how much you’re selling them for.
SherriffMike Finch: Hugh, it is NOT hunting season. You can’t be going after turkeys right now.
Hu Gh: If I’m packing heat, it’s the season to me.
Jade Clark: Oh my God, Hugh’s gonna get arrested.
Marjorie Brown: Can you get a video?
Mollie kept staringat the cake in my hands as I took it out of the fridge.
“There are no hints on the top of this cake,” I said. “And you’re not finding out early.”
“The suspense iskilling me,” she whined.
“It’s killing all of us,” Maribelle said. She’d stayed the night in Cain’s old room. I’d been happy to see her since I’d spent a lot of my childhood with her. She seemed thrilled that Mollie was pregnant, and doted on her daughter much like Cain did.
I shook my head. “You guys only have to wait an hour.”
The day I’d learned the gender of Mollie’s baby had snuck up quickly. After one of her appointments, she’d shoved a sealed envelope in my hands and begged me to look and then burn it because her curiosity was too much.
I’d done that and then ordered the cake.
Her need to know what she was having was only getting worse. Cain hadn’t asked, but I could tell he was giving me double glances when he thought I wasn’t looking. Mollie had resorted to following me around, begging for a hint.
“An hour’s too long,” she said. “Gimme something.”
“You’ve made it weeks while the results came in. One more hour won’t kill you.”
“No,” she moaned. “I just need to know if Cain’s right or not.”
I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. “What’s your guess?”
