chapter 38

MOLLY

“Is that supposed to say closed?” Jess asked from her car.

The sign said CLOSED. Easter Lanes was closed.

I growled. “I’m going to take a fork and stab my cousin. I’ll keep stabbing him, little cuts, over and over again, until he’s bleeding out and he can’t move. The slowest and longest death possible.”

I was fully aware I was saying this in the presence of an ex-law enforcement worker, and that she was giving me a look as if, “Do you know who you’re saying that to?”

I didn’t care. Sunday was always a decent day for work, and he had closed my place! Also, I felt the switch starting to turn. It wasn’t just my dad who could flip it. It was family in general.

I turned to Jess. “I guarantee you that my cousin is still in bed, hungover from wherever he went last night, and if I find out that he closed early last night, I will blow a gasket.”

She stared at me and blinked once. “What’s his address?”

God, I loved my friends.

I gave it to her, and she programmed it in and took off. “Do y