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Chapter 1

Daisy Cutter opened her wallet even though she already knehat she’d find She counted out the 52 as though by sohed and looked up at the Arrival/Departure screen on the h for a bus ticket back to Nebraska, just as she hadn’t eight o

She stuffed her wallet back into her jeans pocket and pulled out her cell phone She frowned as she looked down at it Matt’s nu her mama at this moment, she absolutely refused to call Matt He was the whole reason she was here in the first place She scrolled down and chose her ma, wondering what kind of h she had any other kind of mood aside from ‘irritated’

“Yeah,” caard voice Daisy’s frown deepened It was, apparently, iood mood Daisy wondered, briefly, if her ma

“Maht It wouldn’t do to sass so for money It wasn’t like Sue needed to be rehter didn’t see eye-to-eye on anything

Daisy’s mama was quiet for aup on her Instead, she said, “Got your phone back”

Daisy grilanced around at the other people in the teroing

“Yeah,” Daisy confir up the bill”

Sue snorted, and Daisy realized that her otten about the phone Sue Cutter wasn’t the type to throw hter

“Don’t got no cash,” she infor” The story had been the sa both irritated and eh Daisy wouldn’t pay it back- eventually

“Well, I’m not,” she lied and kicked a bench with her cowboy boot She winced as her big toe throbbed

“So, when are you co tone in her voice