“Tell me again what happened? And no, I don’t care that she was getting cracker crumbs in the company car.” My uncle frowns at me disapprovingly as I try for the third time to make sense of what went down with Clayton Monroe this morning.
I feel like I’m on hour 36 of an all-nighter. My head feels inflated and my heart beats erratically. Can this all be related to the mold growing in my kitchen sink? I start to wonder if Cal is actually killing me with his hog habits.
I take a deep breath and go through the main points again. Dad calling during the meeting. Me returning to Maddie and Clayton poring over a cell phone. “He made reference of an upgrade to her, Kellen. Does she know about the plan?”
He shakes his head. “I haven’t even mentioned it to your father yet,” he tells me. “I rea
