Page 108 of Bourbon Bliss
“I’m meeting with my lawyer today.”
“You fired Andrea already, I assume.”
“Yeah, but it gets worse. I don’t have proof she did it yet. It looks like she did from everything my attorney and I have found so far. But we don’t have enough to nail her. And since the story leaked to the press the other day, and they’re mentioning her, she’s suing me.”
“What?” she practically shrieked.
“Yeah. She hasn’t served the lawsuit yet, but her lawyer sent what he called acourtesy warningto my lawyer this morning.”
“This is unreal. She steals from you, completely screws you over, and now she thinks she can sue you?”
I pinched the bridge of my nose, wincing at the headache I’d been fighting for days. “Yep. That’s where my life is right now. Aren’t you glad you came over?”
“Come on, don’t be like that. You don’t have to deal with this alone. You have a family, and friends. You have a community behind you.”
“I kinda do have to do this alone. I’m paying the price for trusting someone else too much.”
“But that doesn’t mean you don’t have people in your corner.”
Mellow hopped into the kitchen, so I scooped her up and set her in my lap.
“Why is Mellow here?” she asked. “I thought you had her at your place in Bootleg.”
“No, I moved back here until I get this mess straightened out.”
She narrowed her eyes at me. “You were about to sell this house and move out there. I get that this is a big deal, but do you really need to be in Philly to handle it?”
“My lawyer is here.”
“Sure, but it’s not like you’ll be in his office every day.”
“Why are you grilling me about where I live? I have to put things on hold until I get through this.”
“Like your relationship with June?”
“How did you…” I glanced away. It drove me crazy how my sister could read me.
I wasn’t sure where things stood between me and June. I knew she hadn’t wanted me to leave Bootleg. And she was upset that I hadn’t told her what was going on. We hadn’t exactly parted on good terms. “Yes, like my relationship with June. I can’t pull her into this.”
“But she knows, right? You were honest with her about what was going on and why you had to leave?”
“Yeah. I mean, eventually. I told her yesterday.”
She closed her eyes and shook her head. “Oh, GT.”
“What?”
“You just told her yesterday? I thought you two were serious.”
“We are. Or we were.”
“If you were serious, why did you keep this from her?”
I blew out a long breath and pet Mellow between the ears. “I told you, I didn’t want her getting mixed up in my shit.”
“That’s a relationship, GT. You get mixed up in each other’s shit.”
“It’s not like there’s anything she could do.”
