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“I didn’t?” she sucked her lip between her teeth.
“Lenore,” I pinched the bridge of my nose. “What in the holy hell? You already have like fifty!”
She pouted at me.
“But, Daddy,” Mimi picked one up. “Look how cute they are! They’re frizzles! Look at their crazy feathers! They turn out and not in!”
I wasn’t amused.
Nor did I think the thing was cute.
It was actually quite ugly.
I looked at her and narrowed my eyes. “This isn’t over.”
My wife had the audacity to freakin’ smile.
“Yes, honey.”
It was only as I was getting home later that night that I knew that there could’ve been worse things that she could be doing. Secretly hiding chickens in my shed wasn’t really all that bad in the grand scheme of things.
She met me at the door with a worried smile.
“You still mad at me?” she questioned me.
I pulled her roughly into my arms. “You’re in so much trouble.”
She batted her eyes. “Promise?”
I smacked her butt and walked into the house, closing and locking the doors behind me.
“Why’d you need more?” I questioned.
She gestured to the world beyond our home. “It’s total anarchy out there. If we didn’t have our own chickens, how would you get your eggs every morning?”
I had no answer for that, because she was right.
“I honestly thought about getting meat birds, too, but I didn’t think that I could stand butchering them,” she admitted.
My eye twitched. “Just promise me you won’t show up with goats or a cow or something because you don’t want to run out of milk.”
She looked at me wide-eyed. “I didn’t realize we could have those in the city limits!”
I was already shaking my head. “We can’t.”
But I could see that I’d planted the seed of an idea, and she would be seeing what she could accomplish, even if she had to hide the dang thing in our barn this time.
“Don’t,” I warned.
She gave me an innocent smile. “I would never.”
Book:Whiskey Neat
CHAPTER 7
What if you shows your friend a picture of me and they say, ‘as long as you’re happy, bro?’
-Text from Sawyer to Silas
