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“You oughta be glad I did, ’cause it sounds like you didn’t have a clue about what she’s been doin’” Dalton gave him a curious look “You haven’t heard fro to admit, “No”

“I’ Like adios sucker, I got what I wanted froone”

“And she couldn’t possibly want more from me than that?” Tell demanded

Dalton rubbed a spot between his eyebrows “Look I don’t knohy you’re shocked that she’s takin’ advantage of her connection to you to sell advertising to our faia Hotchkiss is a user She always has been She alill be Thee, Tell”

“Bullshit”

“You’ve always juh hoops for her No matter what she’s asked you You didn’t ht giddy whenever she asked for your help with some stupid school project”

Tell fun to keep talking

“Who ended up filling a thousand heliuia there after she begged you to help her? Nope Who had to work the concession stand at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes events? You And you never was the churchy type like her Was Georgia there? Nope Who ended up doin’ all the research and work for the history project senior year? You Did your partner Georgia help at all? Nope”

“None of that shit froed And none of us can be held accountable for ere in high school” Jesus He was beginning to sound like a broken record

Dalton started to open his , “Leave it be”

“No If Dalton’s got so else to say, let him, because God knows he ain’t held back so far”

“Come on, Tell, you’d see it if you weren’t lookin’ at her with stars in your eyes Georgia is back in town to show the people that she ain’t the goody-goody she used to be Who better to have in her bed for a feeeks before the reunion than a wild McKay? The same McKay her ex hated The same McKay she’s always easilyon her for thirteen years”

“That’s enough,” Brandt snapped “Tell’s a big boy I have a hard tih that bullshit”

While Tell appreciated Brandt sticking up for him, he knew that Dalton’s speculations weren’t that far off base

But he had no fking idea what to do about it

One thing was for daonna let it ride

Chapter Nineteen

Georgia never iined that community events were this much fun

The years she’d lived in Sundance, she’d only participated minimally in club, school and community events because her parents preferred she devote her free ti out at the heritage day event quickly disappeared when tons of kids showed up at the booth, eager to learn They’d begged her to recite the alphabet after hearing her count to ten in Russian, telling her how cool it was she knew another language Which was ironic, because she’d been embarrassed by her mother’s ethnicity as a kid and had hated it when her mother spoke to her in Russian