Chapter 6
Though he felt a bit guilty about it after talking to Laura, Connor fully expected the restaurant situation in Wolf Branch to be dire. In fact, he’d planned on avoiding it altogether, hoping a short visit full of helping his parents would give him the perfect excuse.
Sorry, too busy getting the house organized. You two go on without me.
Unfortunately for those plans, the house had come together in record time. With two excited local kids helping, the whole house had been sorted and arranged that afternoon.
His parents had packed everything perfectly. Everything except the loads of books they’d brought with them in numbered boxes according to which built-in shelf they belonged on. Shelves that had been planned, but were so far nothing more than piles of lumber and nails and sc
