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If Griffin had thought that retiring upset his fellow Rock Peakers, that was nothing compared to the cold shoulder he got the next time he went into town. People glared at him, crossed the street to avoid him. One girl even spat her gum out near him, but he decided not to take that one personally.
No one smiled at him except Betsy deVane, who was ever the contrarian. “Looks like you’re in hot water,” she said as she rang up his coffee beans. “Big hot water.”
Boingo bounced from behind the counter and bumped against his leg, looking for some love.
“It’ll blow over.”
“You can hope. Heard there’s an investigation into that football coach.”
“Oh yeah?” He hadn’t heard from the high school yet, but he expected to. They were talking to current students first, and according to Jake, who k
