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Chapter21
HARPER
Harper studied the dude.
It was time to turn on the charm.
She channeled Aria’seat wormsexpression. “Who the hell are you?”
“I’m Tanner, dude,” the guy replied with a surfer-tastic bend to the words.
“That doesn’t mean anything to me,dude,” she fired back. She glanced at Landon. The man sat there slack-jawed like he wasn’t sure this was really happening.
Neither was she.
“Are you lost?” Landon asked.
“Aren’t we all a little lost, dude? Like, metaphorically?” the guy mused, stretching each syllable as his grin widened.
What was happening?
She met Landon’s gaze. “Did we get into a car crash on the way home, and now we’re experiencing head trauma? Or maybe some chemical got released into the air, and we’re hallucinating?”
The surfer-voice dude shifted the box in his arms. “Those can be excellent for creativity.”
“Car crashes?” she posited.
“Hallucinations,” he countered.
Hello, Mr. Weirdo.
She looked him over. He had dark sunglasses, and tufts of brown hair peeked out of a green beanie. He didn’t look dangerous, but she couldn’t tell what was inside the decent-sized box in his hands.
He shifted his load to the crook of one arm and lowered his sunglasses. “Aren’t you the eight cents lady, or am I hallucinating?”
What?
She leaned in toward her heartthrob and lowered her voice. “This guy is either totally out of his mind, or I’m right. We’re dead and we’ve landed in some bizarro purgatory.”
Landon peered at the guy. “Wait, you’re high AF, right?”
Her gaze ping-ponged between the men.
Did everyone with a Y chromosome suddenly lose their mind?
“I mean, not yet, dude, but the day will proceed as the day proceeds. And what is meant to happen will likely happen,” the guy replied.
She stared at her husband. “You know him?”
“I recognize him from the convenience store.”
The convenience store?
She studied the dude, then gasped. It was the clerk who wouldn’t let her take eight pennies from the take a penny, leave a penny dish.
Why would he come to her house?
She had a hunch, but it wasn’t good.
