Ruin Me, Daddy novel · Chapter 22 of 32

Chapter 22: Rickhouse Talk

The door shut behind him, and the van started up outside.

I lowered the microphone.

"Well," Marlee called from the speaker rig, with her hands cupped around her mouth. "He's dramatic."

People laughed. The noise came back in a rush, glasses and boots and somebody starting a song by the barrels.

The diner woman came up the aisle and patted my wrist with her dry little hand.

"I'd have slapped him," she said. "But you did fine."

It took two hours for the rickhouse to empty.

By eleven Marlee was coiling cable under the string lights.

Lettie was asleep sitting up on a hay bale with her clipboard on her lap.

Forrest was nowhere.

I knew where he'd be.

Rickhouse C was dark except for the work lamp at the end of the third aisle.

He was sitting on an overturned bucket with his back against a rack.

His blue flannel sleeves were rolled up, and his hands hung between his knees.

He looked up when he heard me.

"You found me."

"You're not hard to find. You're always facing that aisle."

I sat down on the floor across from him, my back against the other rack. The barrels ticked around us.

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