A Murder of Crows
“Noah had taken Arlene’s keys to run the pickup through the sole carwash in town and had promised to meet us all back at the farm within the hour.“So what did Arlene say to you about Sonny?” I asked Boo as soon as we were on the road back to his parents’ place.Boo shrugged. “What we had suspected. She was trying to blackmail Sonny into fixing the wind turbine deal for her parents. Apparently, he’d been leading her along—just like he did with Gina during the Henderson utility fight—and when Arlen...e found out, she decided he could make up for his lying to her by guaranteeing her parents got the energy lease.”“But he couldn’t do that,” I reminded him. “They had no proof your land was critical for birds, whereas it sounds like everyone out here knew the Weebler’s property had nesting colonies on it.”Boo nodded. “Right. So to keep Arlene quiet, Sonny kept devising ‘plans’ to disqualify our land, but none of the plans panned out, which finally tipped Arlene off to the fact that Sonny wasn’t going to fix the deal for her folks.”“So she figured, worst case, she could blackmail him with their affair,”MoreLess
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