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*HANK*
“Why do people respect the package rather than the man?”
— MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, THE COMPLETE ESSAYS
My day hadn’t been great even before she walked in.
I’d just returned from the funeral of my longtime bookkeeper.
He’d died from old age in his sleep surrounded by his five kids, loving wife,
and eighteen grandchildren while leaving me with a reconciliation mess and
this month’s payroll to finish.
My newly trained bartender had sent a manifesto via text message,
blaming his decision to quit on my unwillingness to build a dedicated
meditation room and give him four paid half-hour breaks per shift to use it.
Three Diamond Whiskey bottles out of the six that had shipped from the
distributor were broken in the crate. If you’re keeping score, that’s seven
hundred dollars in Tennessee Whiskey and a crime against humanity.
On the plus side, the suit I’d worn to my parents’ funerals fit and I still
looked damn good in it.
Of course, I didn’t know the newcomer was her at first. The door opened
and closed, same sound as normal no matter who was coming or going. It
was a Sunday mid-morning, still early yet for any of the dancers or bouncers
and way too early for any customers.
But the moment she turned the corner and came into view, I gritted my
teeth. Here we go. What could she want? She better not be selling Bibles.
“Charlotte.” Standing behind the bar, I crossed my arms and sounded
unfriendly. She’d caught me restocking paper products and the three
surviving bottles of Diamond Whiskey. I was only half finished with my
current task, but nowhere near half finished with my task list for the day. I
did not have time for pious Charlotte Mitchell.
As a rule, I had time for two types of folks: people I paid, and people who
paid me. A small number of exceptions to this rule existed: a few friends
from college and in town, like Beau Winston or Patty Lee, and any woman
I’d set my mind on seducing, but even then, I made sure the scales remained
balanced—give and take, tit for tat, even-steven. Point is, Charlotte was
obviously not the former exception, and there was no way she’d ever be
interested in becoming the latter.
“Hank.” She didn’t look at me, but she did paste on an obligatory-looking
smile that pulled her full lips tight and came nowhere close to her green eyes.
Tracking Charlotte Mitchell’s slow approach, I didn’t miss how she took her
time and peered around.
I wanted to snark, “Lost? I believe the wallpaper and sanctimony store is
closer to downtown.”
Instead, I ground out, “What do you want?”
I had no availability for charity cases, especially not this one. That’s what
Charlotte was: Green Valley’s most infamously pitied citizen. A gorgeous—
yet sadly, virtuous—teacher at the local elementary school and a bake salemaking, soccer mom SUV-driving, PTA-volunteering, hoity-toity, do-gooder
single mother of four disease vectors (children) whose ass of a husband (now
ex-husband, fella by the name of Kevin Buckley) had predictably run out on
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