Chapter 24
Loading up Leonard’s truck turned into a lot more work than we’d expected.
After I’d changed into my new old-man clothes, Tiffany and I worked in her grandparents’ store. Maybe “worked” was an overstatement. Everybody in the community was still at the swap meet, so there was nothing to do. I had my needlework, Tiffany had her pulp fiction, and we sat together in preoccupied silence.
I couldn’t stop thinking about what we planned to do to Yvette. I had a feeling she knew, too. As much as I told myself she wasn’t real, I could practically feel her inside my head, digging for information.
Tiffany might have been more afraid than I was. As soon as we’d stepped into the store, she walked straight to the sea salt. She set Yvette on the shelf below the register and put four
