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Cord frowned. “Hey, that’s my mom.”
“Whatever.”
Perhaps sensing Drew wasn’t completely indifferent to being considered a pariah, Cord changed the conversation.
“Why did you want to meet?”
“Did you see what Neilson just posted?” Drew shoved his hand into the pocket of his jacket, pulling out his phone.
“What?” Cord moved to stand next to Drew, watching as the image of a smiling Wayne popped up on the screen. Next to him was a tall, stern-faced man who was easily recognizable to any male who owned a television. “Kaden Vaughn in Pike? No friggin’ way,” Cord breathed in disbelief. “This must be some sort of trick.”
“The twat isn’t smart enough to Photoshop.”
“I don’t know.” Cord reached up to wipe the snot running from his nose before it froze. “He always gets good grades.”
Drew shook the phone in front of his friend’s face. “This is real.”
“Why would Vaughn be in Pike? There’s nothing here but snow and cows.”
“Have you forgotten the skeleton?”
“What about it?”
Drew rolled his eyes. Cord wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Most of the time he used his head for running into things, not actual thinking.
“Vaughn does reality shows, dumbass.”
Cord ignored the insult. “Yeah. He does stunts and rebuilds awesome bikes. He doesn’t do old bones.”
“Maybe he’s trying a new gig.” Drew shrugged. As far as he was concerned, the only reason a cool dude like Kaden Vaughn would be in Pike was because he thought he could make money off the skeleton. There wasn’t any other reason for a stranger to come to this frozen hellhole. “He’s getting kind of old to be racing around on motorcycles.”
Cord’s eyes brightened. The guy was no doubt going to be stuck on his family farm, milking cows for the rest of his life, but he loved anything with an engine. Race cars, motorcycles, four-wheelers. Even tractors.
“I don’t care why he’s here. I just want to meet him. How long do you think he’ll be around?”
“That’s what I want you to find out. If he is in town to do a show on the skeleton, I have a couple of items he’s going to be interested in.”
“Items?” Cord blinked at the unexpected revelation. “What items?”
Drew smiled. After he nearly landed on top of the skeleton, he’d panicked. He’d scrambled up the hill, screaming like a girl, and then promptly upchucked in front of that jerk, Wayne Neilson. It was almost as humiliating as the time he’d pissed his pants in kindergarten. That was the only reason he’d agreed to take Wayne down to see the bones. And why he forced himself to reach out and touch the thing. He wanted to prove he wasn’t a pussy. He hadn’t expected to discover a potential treasure while his companion was busy digging out his phone and taking pictures.
“A little something I found on the body,” he murmured in mysterious tones.
Cord spit another string of tobacco. “Liar.”
“It’s true.” Drew held up his hand. “Swear to God.”
“Show me.”
“No way. You’d blab about it all over town and it ain’t going to be worth shit.”
“Blab what?”
Drew shook his head, impatient to get going. The day wasn’t getting any warmer and he was going to have to walk. The sooner he could get to his destination, the better.
“Just find out where Vaughn is and how long he’s going to be in town.”
Cord jutted out his lower lip. He looked more like a baby than a guy who’d just celebrated his eighteenth birthday.
