Chapter 30

“Okay, call him! Call him!”

He took out his phone and glanced up at me.

“But it won’t make any difference,” I muttered. “Maybe you can change, but he can’t.”

On that ominous note, we made a lunch date with Tommy. 11

David arranged for us to have lunch at Bud and Lorraine’s Rock Bottom Cafe outside town, on neutral ground. He figured anything we had to say was better said where the Old Town crowd wouldn’t be on top of us.

We didn’t count on the animosity between Lorraine and Tommy. When we walked in, we could feel her hackles rise.

Lorraine slapped the menus on the table in front of each of us.

“The special is roast beef. I’ll be back.” She sounded more like the Terminator than the Lorraine I’d known in high school.

David looked at me and raised an eyebrow. I had no clue what was going on.

Tommy was glancing around the Bottom’s dining room, shaking his head.

“This dump hasn’t changed since Bud’s dad owned it,” he muttered. “It should’ve been condemned years ago.”