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‘You want me to go with you?’ Matt asks.
‘No, I can handle it. Thanks for letting me know.’ I stop at my car.
‘You know she was putting it up for sale, right?’
I look over at him. ‘She said she was thinking about it.’
‘She talked to me about it last week. She offered me the listing and asked me to give her an estimate of what she could get for the place.’
‘But she didn’t sign anything yet, right? To sell it?’
‘No, but I’m guessing she will now. Why would she stay? G’s wasn’t making any money and now someone destroys the place? They wrote “get out bitch” on the front of her building. Not the kind of welcome you want when you move to a new town. I don’t blame her for wanting to go.’
She shouldn’t go. She should stay here. Nick is right. She doesn’t want to leave. She loves it here. She used to tell me that all the time. She loves the historic buildings, the quaint downtown, the beautiful scenery, the orchard, my family. Theonly thing she doesn’t love here is me, because I was a jerk who didn’t believe her.
‘I’ll see you later, Matt.’ I get in my car and drive to G’s. The cops are there, along with Gina’s truck.
‘I’m gonna kill you, Wade,’ I mutter as I step over all the debris in the parking lot. Broken glass, broken tables, broken chairs. Gina spent all the money she had on this place and now it’s destroyed.
Before this happened, I thought I might be able to convince her to stay. But now, with G’s destroyed, she’ll want to go. And I don’t think I’ll be able to change her mind.
Chapter 24
Sawyer
‘Hey, Sawyer.’
I look up and see Gina coming out of the brewery. She’s changed out of the dress she had on at the competition and is wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a long black cardigan over it. A cold breeze blows and she quickly closes the sweater around her as she walks up to me.
‘Gina, I’m so sorry.’
She shrugs. ‘It’s not your fault. You didn’t do this.’
‘You know who did?’
‘That guy, Tom.’
‘The guy I went to high school with? The one who owns the print shop?’
She nods. ‘A man reported seeing Tom’s car here when it happened and someone else said they saw him driving off after he destroyed the place.’
‘Are the cops going to arrest him?’
‘They just did.’ She nods toward the building. ‘The cops who are here now are in there collecting evidence. I’m sure they’llbe able to prove Tom did it, but I doubt anything will happen to him.’
‘It will. We don’t let shit like this happen in Haydon Falls, and if it does, we don’t let whoever did it get away with it. I don’t know if I can get them to do anything to Wade, but I’ll try to get his account shut down.’
‘Wade? What did Wade do?’
‘He’s the one who was making those posts online, telling people not to come here. He just admitted it to me. He said he did it to make sure he didn’t lose his job.’
‘Why would he lose his job?’
‘He thought if you stayed in business, everyone would come here and Kanfield would have to close.’
‘Why would he think that? I had almost no customers.’
‘But you did before he started posting all that shit online. The week of your opening, he overheard people talking about Gs, saying the beer was—’ I stop and clear my throat.
