ALSO the “beer buddies” his dad mentioned? Those are his childhood best friends! The Barrett brothers are listed as investors. So he comes home, takes over from his dad, takes his friends' money, and starts this whole “Mountain Daddy” rebrand that's basically turning a historic property into a thirst trap??
idk about you but that screams opportunist to me
The replies multiply, scandalous virus mutating, spreading…
omg this makes so muchsense now
the hot lumberjack content was giving desperate
his dad must be PISSED
if my dad said he didn't recognize what I built... I'd be in THERAPY
I feel bad for the Barrett brothers honestly, they seem like good guys who got played
My hands shake. My fingertips turn to ice and go numb.
This isn't journalism. This isn't even gossip. This is a narrative being built in real-time, brick by brick, and Tara didn't have to say a single word.
She just provided the raw materials and let the internet do the demolition.
She knew exactly what she was doing.
Every “candid” shot. Every “accidental” audio clip. Every carefully cropped image designed to strip away context and leave only suspicion.
And the worst part?
She's not wrong about the facts. Just the framing.
Everettdidleave for nine years. Hedidcome back after Grammie Bea died. Hedidtake investment from my brothers. Heismodernizing the lodge in ways that make traditionalists nervous.
But thewhyof it—the grief, the guilt, the desperate love for a place he couldn't stand to watch crumble—none of that makes it into the thread.
None of that fits the narrative.
I sit up clutching the phone in my hand so tight, my fingers scream in agony.
He left because of me.
The thought slices through everything else.
He left because I broke his heart and he couldn't stay here and watch me pretend we were nothing. Loving me cost him his home.
And now the internet is calling him an opportunist for coming back.
I want to scream.
I want to reply to every comment, explain that they're wrong, that they don't know him, that Everett Morgan is the furthest thing from an opportunist?—
But I can't.
Because defending him means explaining why I know him well enough to defend him. And explaining that means admitting what we are. What we've always been.
And how does our history look now in Tara’s frame?
The secret that could still blow up everything.
I scroll through more comments, each one a fresh wound.
