Chapter Two The cheeseburgers at Rosemary’s Diner were greasy and often even the smell of them made Lexi’s stomach turn, but she decided not to complain about it today since she was trying to be more optimistic, like Deacon West had observed. Unlike Charles Town, which essentially only had one diner, Shepherdstown had several, but Tyson preferred this one. He’d worked as a short order cook at Rosemary’s when he was in high school since the only cars he could work on then were his own race cars, and that actually cost money instead of helping him earn it. So this was Tyson’s diner of choice, and he always ordered the same thing. A greasy double cheeseburger with fries and a soda. Lexi usually tried to eat more healthy. Even though she was five foot ten and perfectly fit, she’d been an at

