“Your mother isn’t going to be happy that I’m living with you, Boone,” Nettie pointed out.
“Me caring about what my mother thought ended with her taking everything that was precious away from me,” I said stiltedly. “Maybe it’ll egg her into doing something stupid, like giving herself away.”
Nettie snorted and gathered up her purse. “Your mother is anything but stupid, Boone. That is why she was able to hide everything so well for all these years. She plays the long game and has since I met her. I do not expect this to go well.”
I stood up, too, and walked out of my father’s building with her.
Which was the best thing that could’ve happened when we ran into the one person I did not want to see downstairs.
Seven
The more I get to know people, the more I realize why Noah only let animals on the boat.
—Nettie’s secret thoughts
Nettie
My head was reeling, and it wasn’t even noon yet.
I was full of pizza and considering a nap in my car while I waited for my sister’s practice to start, and ready to breathe some clean Montana air.
Boone followed beside me silently, stopping to hold the door open for me and several other ladies heading to lunch, when we heard it.
“What are you doing here?”
Gail Windsor’s voice was worse than nails on a chalkboard.
She sounded like that screaming goat you saw all over social media, but with a feminine flair to it.
I hated it.
I hated even more that I was about to have to deal with her for however long while the FBI did their thing.
Unless they kill her first.
I shouldn’t be happy about hearing those words come out of the man I love’s mouth.
Yet, I was.
If there was one person on this planet that I thought didn’t deserve to be here anymore, it was her.
“Oh, Gail.” I smiled. “What a surprise. Boone and I are getting married, and we met with Sawyer since he’s been like a second dad to me, to tell him the good news. We were heading your way next.”
Lies.
I would die before I told her any of my news.
Gail’s eyes narrowed. “Are you pregnant again like last time?”
The nerve…
“Nope,” I lied. “We just decided we were fighting the inevitable. Love truly conquers all, and Boone and I finally came to our senses.”
Lies.
Well, mostly.
I did love him, and I knew that he loved me.
