Chapter 6
“What are you doing…? Come join me,” Gideon shouted loud enough to hurt his throat.
“You sure?” Rudy shielded his eyes. “We didn’t leave things on the best of terms.”
“The shoes.”
“What?”
“You mean because of the shoes?”
“Yeah. I was kind of a jerk, so…sorry.”
“Well, I chained you to a bar, so…I’m sorry, too.”
A loud bird interrupted the back and forth, perhaps telling the two annoying men to stop screeching at each other.
“We good?” Gideon asked.
“Yeah.” Rudy’s untucked shirttail flapped in a sudden breeze. He, on the other hand, was still.
“You coming up then?”
Rudy didn’t respond.
“Rudy?”
“It’s pretty high.” He moved his foot back and forth in the gravel below.
“Not really. It just looks high from down there.”
“I have a feeling it’ll look high from up there, to
