8
DECEMBER EIGHT MONTHS EARLIER
Lexi’s phone buzzed noisily as soon as she exited the airplane. She rifled around in her travel purse filled to the brim with items she couldn’t fit in her luggage.
After locating it, she pressed the green button and said, “Chyna, perfect timing.”
“Perfect timing?” Chyna asked. “I’ve been calling you for an hour. Where the hell have you been?”
Lexi chuckled. Leave it to Chyna to forget that her best friend was leaving the state for over a week to spend Christmas with her family. “I’m in Atlanta. I just landed at the airport. Remember? We had this discussion.”
“No, we didn’t,” Chyna said.
“Yes, we did. I told you I would be gone a week to visit my family and Ramsey.”
“We did not have this conversation. Where were we?”
Lexi sighed as she moved through
