When we got to the fire, there were several other couples already surrounding it.
All the couples were there but Boone and Nettie.
There was only one couple I’d yet to meet.
Even if I didn’t remember the names from the earlier introductions.
“I’m Sorcha,” the older woman said upon seeing me eyeing her.
I smiled. “Constance.”
“It’s nice to officially meet you,” she said. “This one is Major. He’s the one that helped y’all find your place.”
I snapped my fingers. “That’s why y’all sound so familiar.”
Sorcha smiled.
Major squeezed his wife’s hip.
“Your parents left with that cute little kiddo of yours about half an hour ago.” Sorcha paused. “She took your dog.”
Odin and I both laughed.
“She seems quite attached to him,” I agreed. “I think that he’s shared her bed with her the last two nights.”
Odin looked over at me. “He’s not allowed on the furniture.”
My lips thinned.
A truck door slammed, catching all of our attention. Then Black was marching toward us, looking just as exhausted as Odin.
“What’s up, Black?” Major asked when he took a seat.
I got up from Odin’s lap and walked to the food, grabbing a bunch of random shit that was left and then bringing it back to Black with a beer.
He took the food with a muttered thanks, and then I was falling back into Odin’s arms.
Sorcha grinned at the move.
“Long ass day,” Black grumbled. “That kid has a lawyer. They’re saying insanity already.” Black angrily speared a hot dog and brought it up to his lips. “That kid knew exactly what he was doing.”
“I’m sure he did,” I agreed. “Did you learn anything new?”
“Before he lawyered up? No. After he lawyered up, that his mother refuses to pay a single dime. He has a government-appointed lawyer, and nowhere to go if he were to bail out. Which he won’t be. No one in this town will get him out. Not after learning that he killed those three teens and his dad. Who everyone fuckin’ loved.”
“There are a lot of people already grumbling about a doctor in town,” Mable mused. “What are we going to do?”
I pinched Odin.
He glared.
I pinched him again.
He sighed.
“Odin’s going to do it.”
Everyone paused.
