Page 13 of Finding Hayes
Thanks. Nash, do you think you can get your friend, Warner, to help out with a car that needs to be towed and fixed?
Nash
Yes. The dude never sleeps. He’salways working. I’ll send you his info now and you can text him.
Thanks.
King
So… we’re dying to know if Beans is right. Young Savvy was cute back in the day. Is grown-up Savvy hot?
Beans was the nickname we used for Romeo’s wife, Demi. There was a long pause, and I refused to answer his dumbass question.
Nash
He isn’t answering, which means she’s definitely hot.
Romeo
He sure as hell isn’t denying it.
River
Oh, he’s using emojis. She’s definitely hot.
King
The one who got away is all grown up now. And she’s hot. Our boy doesn’t know what to dowith himself.
Your boy is going to kick your ass the next time he sees you. I’m heading home. I’ll see you at Abe’s funeral tomorrow.
King
You sure will. And we’ll all be seeing Savvy there, as well.
I sent a quick text to Warner about getting Savannah’s car towed from Whiskey Falls bar. She may not want to see me, but I was fairly certain she didn’t have the money to fix that piece-of-shit car of hers right now. We had a history. She was going through a hard time. The least I could do was help her out with her car.
We were friends once, after all.
And that’s what friends do.
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Savannah
A lotof people had come out for the funeral to say their goodbyes to Abe. One notable person that was missing today was Sheana, a woman he’d married after Lily had passed away. Their union was brief, as she’d clearly been after his money, no doubt, and she’d preyed on the goodness of a lonely man who was much older than her. I’d struggled with his decision to marry her, but she’d gotten what she wanted and managed to leave with a large sum of money. In the end, Abe realized he’d been scammed, and he’d said it was worth the money to be rid of her. Of course, she hadn’t bothered to show up to his funeral.
But he’d told me what he wanted for his service, and he’d set the money aside so it would all be taken care of.
He had prepared me for everything, aside from the fact that he was leaving me his estate.
Oh, and also the fact that he was giving me one month to find a husband.
It was ridiculous. Ludicrous. But it was also a very Abe thing to do.
