Page 23 of Now to Forever (Life on the Ledge Duet #2)

June

How's the house coming? Need help?

Scotty

How can you help? Isn’t your kitchen in shambles too?

Right. Well how is yours? When can I see it?

Fine. Knocking out the list the realtor sent me to get it sale-ready. You can see it then.

I got some real estate magazines for Arizona. Desert yards don’t have grass. Weird, right?

I think I finally got rid of Ford once and for all.

That idiot can’t take a hint. And he has a thing for birds.

And he just disappeared after Zeb . . .

AND! He’s a cop, I’m pretty sure they’re all kinds of fucked. And I’m leaving . . .

Even if I wasn’t leaving, what would that look like? Me and Ford? Has he not seen the trailer I grew up in?

Blink twice if the twins have tied you to a tree.

Do you really want me to answer?

Because if you do, I’ll tell you that you loved that boy when we were kids, and he hurt you when Zeb died because he was as young and heartbroken as the rest of us.

I’d also tell you that you put more stock in where you came from than anyone else does.

You read books about alien sex, birds seem like child’s play. And don’t you hate the desert?

I like you better when you’re tied to a tree.