Bailee, Texas
Population 15,007
March 20, 2008
Chapter 1
Dust battered the side of my rusty Saturn as I counted out the money I had left in my purse.
Two hundred, forty-five dollars and some change. “The great Pepper Malone has tumbled,” I mumbled as if my life could be summed up in a headline.
I had enough to drive to Dallas and stay a week in a cheap, very cheap, motel while I looked for a new job. Enough to make it back to Chicago and face the music. Enough to hide out here in Bailee, Texas , for a month or more.
The choices were like trying to pick a roommate at an alligator refuge. I managed a grin and decided this time my rushing-in-like-a-fool attitude might get me hurt.
Closing my eyes, I fought back tears. I wasn’t strong enough to start over in Dallas with no friends, no family and no job. Or, brave enough to face what I’d done in Chicago.
Population 15,007
March 20, 2008
Chapter 1
Dust battered the side of my rusty Saturn as I counted out the money I had left in my purse.
Two hundred, forty-five dollars and some change. “The great Pepper Malone has tumbled,” I mumbled as if my life could be summed up in a headline.
I had enough to drive to Dallas and stay a week in a cheap, very cheap, motel while I looked for a new job. Enough to make it back to Chicago and face the music. Enough to hide out here in Bailee, Texas , for a month or more.
The choices were like trying to pick a roommate at an alligator refuge. I managed a grin and decided this time my rushing-in-like-a-fool attitude might get me hurt.
Closing my eyes, I fought back tears. I wasn’t strong enough to start over in Dallas with no friends, no family and no job. Or, brave enough to face what I’d done in Chicago.
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