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She hadn’t had that much freedom in her employment before and was slightly shocked it came in the form of a job she’d never seen coming.
With her afternoon off, she was going to run some errands and then work on a few recipes for a different dessert to put on the menu. It was a risk to try something new, but that was why she’d practice it at home a few times first.
She stopped her car at the four corners before the store that sold her ingredients, looked both ways and started to pull forward. Almost immediately her car was slammed into on the passenger door and she was jerked against the side and back.
She shook her head a second and all she could think of was,Dang it, this car better not be totaled when it’d be paid for in less than a year.
When she opened the door to get out, she grabbed her phone to call 911 and saw a teenage boy all but stomping over to her screaming, “You didn’t stop. It’s your fault.”
“What are you talking about?” she said, getting out of the car. “It’s a four-way stop. There was no one there when I stopped. You came plowing into me.”
“No,” he yelled. “I stopped and you didn’t.”
She couldn’t believe this was happening to her. She was shaken up from the wreck on top of it. “I’m calling the police now,” she said. “They can sort it out.”
“They will just find out it was your fault. I’m calling my parents,” the kid said.
She didn’t care. She walked away from his screaming, even though she could hear the kid yelling at his parents that it wasn’t his fault and his car was a mess.
As calmly as she could, she spoke to dispatch and told them where they were and said she didn’t think her car could even be moved now that she looked at the damage. The kid’s car was even worse.
She disconnected the call when she was told someone would be on scene in a few minutes.
She went back to her car and took a seat with the door open to get some air. No reason to be standing around looking like a fool. Some people were stopping to see if they were all right and all she could think of was who the heck to call to come get her.
Her parents went off the island for the day. She didn’t have any other friends she could call. She supposed she could try to get an Uber.
Then she realized she didn’t even know where to have her car towed. She didn’t know any of that.
If she called her parents they’d only be worried and rush home and she didn’t want that. She was fine.
She took a deep breath and called Duke. She knew he wasn’t at either restaurant at this time.
He answered on the third ring. “Hi, Hadley. What’s going on?”
The fact it took him so long to answer made her think he was busy. “I’m sorry to bother you. I was just in an accident and I don’t know who else to call. The police are on the way. My car isn’t going to be drivable. I don’t know where to take it, or how to get home. My parents are off the island and—”
“Tell me where you are and I’m on the way.”
She tried not to laugh that he cut her off. This was the same guy that had hung up on her early on without saying goodbye.
She told him where she was and then waited when he disconnected right after. No reason to tell him not to rush, that the police weren’t even here yet. She could tell by his voice he’d be here fast and might get a speeding ticket in the process.
A few minutes later, the kid’s parents arrived and there was lots of screaming and they were all coming over to yell at her for not yielding the right of way. That she wrecked their son’s birthday gift.
She was just left sitting there stunned and ready to cry. She couldn’t get a word in edgewise and felt ganged up on while she all but crawled backward for some space.
“What’s going on here?”
She looked past the parents and the kid to see a big man standing there in jeans and an Amore Island Police shirt, a badge on his belt with his gun.
“Chief Bond,” the father said. “This woman didn’t yield the right of way and now my son’s car is a mess. I hope she’s getting a ticket.”
“Is anyone hurt?” Chief Bond asked. She shook her head and the kid said no. “I don’t understand why you are crowding her in her car then. Let her out so she can breathe. I need statements from the two drivers and then if there are witnesses.”
The chief’s voice was loud and firm and she wanted to slide back into the car more, the parents and the kids moving back for her to get out.
She knew this was Mac Bond and Duke’s cousin, but that meant nothing to this situation.
