Nine
Juno
Kingston arrives late, but he’s got all the blue balloons already blown up. What I’m more surprised to see is Selene from the Cozy Cottage Bed and Breakfast climbing down from his truck. I’d started to wonder if she was coming at all since most of the other townies have already arrived.
I meet him and grab a bundle of the balloons. “Hi, Selene.”
“Juno, you look beautiful,” she says.
“You too,” I say.
She walks up the gravel walkway and through the hangar doors.
“Why are you bringing Selene to the party?”
Kingston is like the rest of my brothers—he’ll never decline a favor someone asks of him. Which is wonderful, but if he’s in communication with Selene, I worry that he could get sucked into all things Stella again. That would be about as good for him as if his hobby was s
