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But I sober up fast when I feel my thick wheels slide on something slick on the road.
What the?—
Before I know what’s hit me, I’m catapulting over the embankment. My Harley goes one way and I fly the other.
Holy hell, I say to myself before darkness closes around me.
CHAPTER 4
GINNY
I'm just getting ready to head out when Sally heads over in her pink Lucky's uniform
"Came to give you a hug goodbye," she announces with a fake theatrical tone. "Bruce says you're headed up to Forks Lookout. Given the storm, I may never see you again."
Charlie Boy greets her with an enthusiastic woof. Sally, a good family friend, had been a regular visitor to our house before Dad passed.
"I'll be fine. Provisions have been delivered. Road's clear. What's the issue?"
"You're too independent for your own good, Ginny-girl," she says, settling into the vinyl seat beside me.
"So I've been told."
The TV above the bar flickers to some entertainment news segment.
Suddenly, I'm staring at a face I know better than my own.
Those dark eyes that once looked at me with soul-crushing passion.
That easy grin that got him out of trouble with every teacher in high school.
Wyatt.
The camera pans out, and I see he's wearing a tuxedo, not his NFL uniform.
And beside him, a girl with willowy limbs and perfect teeth. She’s wrapped in a wedding dress exactly like the one I dreamed of wearing beside Wyatt .
I grip the edge of the table, feeling the sticky residue of spilled beer under my fingers.
Sally registers my surprised expression. "You haven't heard the news?"
The TV screen blurs as I stare at it.
I can still hear Wyatt's voice from that night in his truck, the rain drumming on the roof."I'm gonna marry you one day, Ginny girl. Soon as I make it."
He ‘made it’ the day after graduation, when he got picked up to be in the minor league. But no proposal came.
Not then.
Not ever.
"I don't keep up with celebrity gossip," I tell her with a shrug.
“Celebrity?!You two were going steady since high school.When he came back home to visit your pa, I thought you said..."
"You thought wrong.”
I turn back to the screen with a sense of disbelief. Just a few weeks before Dad died, Wyatt visited Whitefish to pay his respects.
