Six Months Later
Ellamore, Illinois
“Is it just me, or is it really f*****g weird that those two are hooking up?”
Pausing my search under the counter of the bar where I now worked, I glanced up at one of my new coworkers who’d come over to lean on the bar directly beside me so he could ask me that very question.
I wrinkled my brow, utterly confused. “What two?”
Bartending was the first job I’d found since moving to Ellamore with Reese. And it was just in the nick of time too. I’d been right about my mother; she’d been more than ready to leave Waterford and start over in Illinois. And Reese had been right about her mom finding mine a position at the hotel she managed. But I’d also been right about the money situation.
After moving across the country, getting Mom and Sarah set up in a
