The County Fair Queen

Chapter Thirteen

SHUT UP ABOUT SARAH MCLACHLAN

Team Firecracker assembled at Fletcher Family Vineyard shortly before sunset the next evening. As Aunt Lurlene busied herself preparing teas and coffees, Jordan was clacking away at his tablet's keyboard, trying to find intel on this whole piglet-peddling operation. At first, he'd told me information on Mr. Monte was shrouded in so much secrecy, smoke, and mirrors, that finding their names had proved to be impossible. When I'd jerked his tablet out of his hand and saw he'd simply been perving over a shirtless picture of my father he'd stolen from Facebook, he quickly changed his tune. The list of issues that would need to be addressed once we returned to London was already a mile long, so I chose to let this one slide.

Earlier in the day, I'd convinced Rivers to allow Brenda/Carole to pick up Beau under the guise of filming a one-on-one confessional for the docuseries. Luckily, Rivers had been busy with Muscadine Madness festivities, so we had Beau all to ourselves.