My Family Wants Me Gone, I Take Their Luck With Me novel · Chapter 20 of 32
Chapter 20: Saffron's Video
I tore the invitation in half and dropped it in the trash under the register.
Arlo fished it back out.
"What are you doing?"
"Keeping it." He smoothed the two halves on the counter. "I've never been invited to a tower."
"You weren't invited. You're a fry cook."
"I'm an excellent fry cook."
I laughed in spite of myself. He tucked the halves into the frame of Marigold's crayon drawing by the register.
Saffron's rented sedan was back in the lot at seven the next morning.
She was already at the dumpster when I brought out the coffee. She'd cleared half the arcade by herself.
I held out a cup.
She looked at it.
"It's just coffee," I said.
She took it. Her gloves were black to the wrist.
"I know how you talk, Saff," I said.
She went still.
"Noelle Penhurst is unstable and her family is scared for her." I said it in the flat voice the comments had. "Twenty accounts, word for word. Then two hundred. I wrote copy for six years, Saff. I know a paid sentence."
She didn't deny it.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of My Family Wants Me Gone, I Take Their Luck With Me are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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