Chapter Forty: So Am I Stabbing You?

Carley

“Sawyer has really turned her dad’s place and she just started college. You will be so proud of her,” Carmen says as we drink yet cup of boozy coffee.

“So, have you locked Jeremy down yet?” I ask as we drink yet another cup of boozy coffee. She is crushing on the guy working at the bar with her friend Sawyer. He is a bouncer while Sawyer is training under her dad to take over.

She blushes. “No,” she slurs. “I can’t tell if it’s me he likes me or Sawyer. What’s there not to like about Sawyer? She is gorgeous and brilliant when it comes to running a business already. She is going to be an awesome mom.”

“C? Have you looked in the mirror lately? You’re gorgeous too and you don’t have the baggage that S does. She is taking over the bar to secure a future for her daughter. She is a teenage mother who had to give up the dancing she loved so much. Let’s face it, Nate isn’t a saint, and one of these days he is going to find himself in p