That’s the way it’s done on Long Island,” I deadpanned. “You leave your door open?” he asked a second later, his mouth tight. He exhaled slowly as if I were on his last nerve. I realized we were already back at the motel.

“You’re kidding me, right?”Īgatha needed to get her fucking eyes checked if she mistook the pissed-off brunette for her bleach-blonde, baked-tan, tattooed pain-in-the-ass sister. Naomi blinked at me like she was coming out of a fog. Now here I was, at what counted as the asscrack of dawn, playing town bouncer like an idiot and fighting with a woman I’d never met. I also threw some blame in Agatha’s direction too for good measure, since she’d been the one to text me that Tina had just walked her “trouble-making ass” into the cafe. My day wasn’t even supposed to be started yet, and it had already gone to shit. The woman was staring at me like I’d just suggested she French kiss a rattlesnake. And considering what had gone down in the last twenty-four hours, that was saying something. Once again, Tina had managed to make my life just a little bit worse. Right about then, reality penetrated my exhausted, dazed, bobby-pinned-to-within-an-inch-of-its-life head. I looked like I’d had a long-term threesome with a tanning bed and cheap eyeliner. Gosh, I was funny when I was too tired to blink.Īnyway, thirdly, it was an incredibly unflattering picture. Secondly, just what did a person have to do in this dusty little town to have a mugshot hanging in the local cafe? I wasn’t sure what to expect when I walked into Cafe Rev, but it sure as hell wasn’t a picture of myself behind the register under the cheery headline “Do Not Serve.” A yellow frowny face magnet held the photo in place.įirst of all, I’d never set foot in Knockemout, Virginia, let alone done anything to warrant a punishment as egregious as withholding caffeine.

Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Things We Never Got Over, Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone.

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score