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She did.
“But that doesn’t mean you have to be on there looking at stuff about killer hornets,” I disagreed.
She sighed. “I gotta go. I’m late for a phone appointment. Love you.”
I hadn’t even hung up for half a minute before it was once again ringing in my hand.
“Hello?”
“Hey,” I heard some man say oddly. “This is Jess from The Chevrolet Place? I just got a call from an elderly gentleman saying that he wanted to buy you a car?”
I hung up laughing.
Book:Execution Style
CHAPTER 24
I need something that’s more than coffee, but less than cocaine.
-Annie to Mig
MIG
“Babe,” Annie said.
I looked over at my wife.
“What?” I asked, sounding just as distracted as I felt.
I was reading a case file that was bothering me, and I could hear the kids screaming and yelling in the room beside ours.
It was really hard to concentrate. What made it even harder was trying to concentrate while the kids were practicing for the WWE in the room next door and your wife wouldn’t stop…
“Babe!” Annie growled.
I dropped the case file on the table in front of me and looked at her, I was sure with all the annoyance that I felt in my eyes.
“I need you to take me somewhere,” she said.
I narrowed my eyes. “Where?”
She handed me the keys to my truck and pointed to the door.
“Outside, now,” she ordered.
I opened my mouth to argue when Rome and his wife walked in with their children.
“Y’all ready or what?” Rome asked.
I looked at my wife with raised eyebrows.
“You’re working too hard. They opened the lake back up. We’re taking the jet skis out, and Rome’s gonna pull his boat.” She clapped. “Let’s go!”
I opened my mouth to argue but Rome came up to me and slapped me on the back.
“Don’t bother,” he said. “I tried to argue, too. This was my first day off in a month, yet here I am, taking my wife and kids to the lake when what I really want to do is sit back with a beer in my recliner.”
I sighed and stood up, ready to tell her that I couldn’t do it, then Annie pulled out the big guns.
