Hopeless (Chestnut Springs, #5)

by Elsie Silver

“Listen, I’ll be the first of us to turn into a skeleton,” Harvey pitches in. “Out with it.” Silence descends, and Bailey goes tense beside me. “So … this isn’t just Bailey’s house. It’s mine too. I’m moving here and starting a new job with the fire department.” I glance over at Cade. “Sorry, man, this is my two weeks’ notice.” He just grunts. “That’s fine. You’re the worst employee I’ve ever had.” I roll my eyes and forge ahead. “So I—we—won’t be living on the ranch anymore. We’ll come hang out sometimes, but this is home base now.” Everyone is quiet. Watchful. My dad speaks first. “That’s your announcement?” My brows furrow. “Yeah.” “That’s the stupidest announcement I’ve ever been fool enough to get excited about.” Jasper wheezes a laugh and tries to cover it with his hand. “No, listen. Winter announcing her baby’s secret paternity at a family dinner? That was an announcement.” “Gotta win at something sometimes, I guess,” she mutters from beside me. “Me telling you all that Cordelia and I are together? That’s an announcement.” A table-wide intake of breath sounds out. Cordelia covers her face with her palm, but Harvey ignores it all. “But you and your fiancée buy a house—a damn nice house—in the city, where she’s going to be spending the next, what? Seven years, at least? And you’re announcing this to us like it isn’t the most obvious thing in the world? Y’all are a bunch of attention seekers. Or dumb. I’m not sure. Either way, just wild.” He shakes his head. Winter sco...

Saving this all because fucking Harvey does it again