My Best Friend Used Me, Now She Pays novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Faulk and Connolly
My father hung the sign himself, on a Monday morning in July, from the top rung of an aluminum ladder.
"Sir," Donal said, from the sidewalk. "I'd feel better if you came down."
"I've been on roofs since 1989."
"With a hip."
"It's new. It's better than yours." My father drove the last screw with his cordless drill and leaned back to admire it. "There. Level."
Bea held the ladder with both hands and her phone in her teeth.
The sign was white, with plain black letters.
It hung over the door of the Kettering strip mall unit where I had once been handed a cyclist's chart.
FAULK & CONNOLLY SPORTS REHAB.
I stood on the curb in a clean gray polo and looked up at my own name.
I had passed the exam on the first try, eleven days earlier.
Donal had remade the brass tag and put it in my pocket without a word.
REHAB SPECIALIST, it said, same as before.
Below it, in smaller letters, the engraver had added PARTNER.
"You cried at the tag," Donal said, low, at my ear.
"I did not."
"Bea has it on video."
"Bea has everything on video."
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of My Best Friend Used Me, Now She Pays are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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