Chapter 12Son of a bitching carpenters. They’d picked a bad f*****g time to mess with Ben Haggerty. Between his nerves being stretched from waiting to see how, or even if, Rick would answer him and the time of year—Mother’s Day was only a couple of weeks away, and of everything, he most regretted not being able to see his mom—well, he wasn’t in the best f*****g mood.
And that alone would be a dead giveaway—he never swore.
Added to that, it would have been nice to get a card from Jason, but that was something else that wasn’t going to happen.
Now this, on top of everything. Ben had asked the carpenters to watch his cables when they put up their sheetrock, and they’d said, “Sure.”
Only when he came back from lunch, it was to find three cables cut.
“What the f**k, man?”
“Hey, not my pro
