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“Yep. And I’m back.” She gave Linc a big smile.
He didn’t look convinced. Awesome.
“I’m Lilac.”
“Lilac.” He held out his hand and shook hers. Nice handshake. Not sweaty and clammy, but not too hard either.
Stefan used to shake hands with people like he was trying to break them.
Mind you, he often did go on to break them.
“I was just telling your friend here that we can’t let you park here overnight, I’m afraid.”
“Oh, we won’t be. We just had a bit of engine trouble last night, but I just got some stuff to fix it. So, we’ll be moving on.”
Nothing to see here.
Everything is fine.
Please don’t put our names in the system.
They all had fake last names. But she was worried their identities wouldn’t hold up if someone looked into them.
“Again, I’m really sorry. We’ll move on as soon as we can,” she said. “I just got a job at Dirty Delights, but we don’t have to stay if you’d rather. We can go to another town.”
She didn’t know why but she felt like she was on the cusp of breaking down, of just giving in and crying. She was aware of Opal giving her a shocked look as she shook her head, trying to tell her to stop talking.
Right. They weren’t leaving. Because this was their last option.
“Hey,” Linc said, holding his hands up. “No one is going to hurt you, okay?”
Why would he think she was worried about that? She hadn’t mentioned anything about anyone hurting her.
“Lilac? You okay? Nobody gave you trouble, did they?” Opal demanded, striding over to her. “I’ll fucking kill them.”
“She didn’t mean that,” Lilac told the deputy quickly.
He gave her a faint smile that didn’t dispel the worry in his gaze. “I didn’t think she did.”
If only he knew what Opal was capable of . . . he probably wouldn’t say that.
“Did anyone give you trouble in town?” he asked.
He really looked like he actually cared.
“No, everyone was nice. I’m just a bit stressed out because of the van breaking down.”
Linc gave the old RV a doubtful look. “Did you say you got something to fix it?”
“Uh-huh. Coolant.”
“Did you get Matt at Haven Mechanical to come look at it?” Linc asked. “Why didn’t he bring out the coolant? Did you walk all the way into town on your own?”
She blinked at him. That was a lot of questions.
“Oh, no, I know what to do,” she reassured him. “Don’t worry. And I didn’t need to bother anyone. It wasn’t that far to walk into town.”
Linc gave her a doubting look, then glanced around the park. “You stayed here last night?”
