Stepdad and His Friends Bred Me During the Birthday Blackout novel · Chapter 24 of 48
Chapter 24: Candles
I didn't make any plans.
They didn't let me.
On Sunday morning Breck took the baby and Rand took my phone.
Abram drove me to a spa in Scottsdale and paid for six hours I didn't know what to do with.
I lasted two.
Then I ate a gas-station burrito in my truck with the windows down.
At seven o'clock Abram texted.
Come home, Renner.
I turned into the drive in Paradise Valley and nearly hit a taco truck.
It was parked at the curb exactly where the dark spot had been a year ago. Lights on. Grill smoking. A line of people down the sidewalk.
The man in the window leaned out and pointed his tongs at me.
"Birthday girl? Your guy called us four times. We're not going anywhere."
The string lights were on. The pool lights were on.
And every chair on the patio was full.
My crew from Renner Electric, all three of them, in clean shirts. The apprentice had a girlfriend on his arm, who told me she'd been on my side the whole time.
My old foreman, in the shade, with a Coke in each hand.
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