For God's sake. Her friend. Her most loyal friend. How could she be walking away like this? Scrunching through the snow toward the trees? Pearl too, although Pearl had the good grace to shrug sheepishly about it. Pearl knew exactly what Ruby was like. Always making scenes, trouble, getting into fights. Ruby would be back. They both would. They didn't really mean this.
It didn't stop what pricked Cass's eyes. Or the fist that grasped her throat so she couldn't swallow. Over him, a bleeding toffee-nosed snout if she'd ever so much as seen one. Imagine? She never would have.
Actually Ruby's description was unfair. Devorlane Hawley didn't have a toffee snout. He wasn't toffee-nosed. Everything else maybe. But not that. And what was so wrong that Ruby couldn't wait another day? Another week?
