I nod, but curiosity sucks me in like everyone else in this town. “He really messed things up that bad for you?”
“Depends on your definition of messing things up. You know the story. Two families going at it. Tad’s family started it. Now, we’ve practically split the town and don’t step on the other’s side.”
“Your family hasn’t gone after the Hales in years. He still can’t be mad about?—”
“He is.”
I frown. “Are you serious? I can talk?—”
She scoffs. “Save your breath. I’d want Tucker Hale back like I’d want a trainin’ bra.”
Okay…
“And Tad?”
Zoe sighs and gives me an exasperated look. “Is this story time? I thought we were doin’ you stuff tonight.”
“Do I want to know?”
“No.”
“Why?”
Zoe takes the lead, guiding us across the town square to the hall. “Because you don’t want Sienna to see you violent tonight.”
21
SIENNA
“I warnedyou that you shouldn’t have come here. I’m everyone’s date but yours.”
I really don’t mind.
While there are pink and red hearts floating around the large hall of Town Hall, I’m getting nauseated by it all. If you weren’t in love before you walked inside, it was going to be shoved down your throat by the end of the night.
And, being in any sort of love or adoration with Thaddeus Delacroix, I don’t see it ever happening.
Nor did I see it with Jonah.
Nope, my attention span is as short as one of my students, because Jonah was great, he just didn’t excite me at all.
Thaddeus is no different.
In fact, he’s worse.
Meetings, budgets, town complaints, plans, renovations, new bills, and his five-year plan have all been constant topics of conversation with Thaddeus since I met him. I thought going out a few times with the mayor would be something new—it is—and someone who could keep my mind busy.
It’s not working.
The idea of being the mayor’s anything gives me hives, and the attention he receives makes me want to go hide in a dark, secluded corner somewhere.
Not that there is one.
And, if there were, someone would surely be dragging me out of it.
With Thaddeus comes too many eyeballs, and I’m not aspiring to be Jackie Kennedy of Magnolia Ridge. The townsfolk here have Thaddeus on a pedestal, and he lives for it.
Even though he says he doesn’t.
