Chapter 16

I walked around the waiting room, and then over to the glass double doors. The sun was already starting to set over the horizon as shades of red, orange, pink, and yellow streaked across the sky. A yawn escaped my lips as I started feeling the effects of the day. In fact, so much had happened over the course of the last few days that it was taking its toll on me. I was suddenly so tired that I was ready to fall asleep where I stood.

“Hey, sugar,” an older woman said in a pronounced southern drawl from behind the receptionist desk, interrupting another one of my yawns. “Do you have a place to stay?”

I laughed. “Yes, I do,” I said, and then set down my guitar case and my purse. “I’m just waiting for one of the guys.”

She nodded. “Rex?”

I laughed so hard that it definitely woke me up. “Not just no, but hell no.”

The woman laughed. “It’s just as well.” Then,