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“You promised you’d stay out of it.”
“We are,” Sage claims.
“Can’t we watch?” Feather asks.
“Watch what?” I ask. I guess I want to be involved after all.
“Nothing,” Cash grunts.
“You’re having a confrontation over nothing?”
“My sassy girl hasn’t changed one bit.”
Hold on. There’s only one person who calls me sassy girl. I whirl around and gasp when Gibson waves at me.
“Gibson!” I scream and run to him. He catches me in his arms. I want to enjoy the feel of his arms around me, his warmth surrounding me, but I have questions. I push away from him.
“You’re out! Why didn’t you tell me? When did you get back? Why didn’t you ask me to pick you up? I would have.”
Chapter 33
Sneak attack – when the visitor you don’t want to see shows up unexpectedly
Gibson
I hold out my hand to Mercy and pray she’ll take it. “Can we talk somewhere private?”
“Boo!” Sage yells behind me.
“We wouldn’t have arranged this festival for you if we knew you were going to hide from us,” Clove claims.
Mercy’s brow wrinkles. “Arrange this festival for you? What are they talking about?”
I wiggle my hand. “Come with me and I’ll explain.”
She slaps her hand in mine. “This better be one awesome explanation.”
I lead her down the street until we reach Bake Me Happy. I made arrangements with Bryan to get some privacy here. I haven’t lived in Winter Falls long but I knew I’d need somewhere private to talk because otherwise the entire town is going to listen in on our conversation.
We enter and I frown when I notice Jett and Isla are here. Isla sees me and breaks away from Jett to run for me.
“You’re home!”
She flies at me and I catch her and whirl her around. “I’m home.”
“Good. Mercy was sad when you were gone.”
Mercy groans behind me and I cough to hide my smile.
I didn’t know what kind of reception I’d face with Mercy. Despite my daily letters to me, she never wrote back. And then I got the crazy idea to keep writing letters and not phone her. To wait to speak to her until I was released.
Jett holds out his hand to Isla. “Let’s go and leave these two alone.”
Isla picks up a cookie the size of her face before grasping Jett’s hand.
“Bye,” Mercy calls as they leave. Isla waves but Jett doesn’t respond.
“He doesn’t like me,” Mercy says once the door is closed behind them.
