Too Hot to Handle
“To a person, each of them stood in the bright morning sun and stared openmouthed at the sign.Black paint had dripped from the crude letters and stained the rough grass beneath the fence.“Oh, my word,” Kristen said for the third time since she’d stepped from Levi’s car.“I know,” Merry said solemnly. “It’s crazy. You should probably call an emergency meeting and decide how to proceed from here.”“What we should do,” insisted Jeanine, “is call the sheriff!”Merry’s stomach twisted as the whole group murmured agreement. “Call the sheriff? I wouldn’t say this was a crime.”“It’s vandalism!” Harry said.“Well… It’s really just an old scrap of wood nailed to an even older fence post. I don’t think anything’s been damaged.”Jeanine sniffed. “Maybe not, but it’s a threat.”“Yes!” Kristen added. “It’s intimidation!”Merry felt her fingers go numb and looked down to see that she’d twisted them into a knot. She forced herself to let go.
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