Total pages in book: 114
Estimated words: 114820 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 574(@200wpm)___ 459(@250wpm)___ 383(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 114820 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 574(@200wpm)___ 459(@250wpm)___ 383(@300wpm)
Dakota worked for Lucinda as a busboy and lived with his dad.
Melanie left town and no one knew where she went.
No one cared either.
For several months after it was over, once a week, Brad and Gentry from the Better Times Motel met at the Double D with Harry Moran and Karen Wilkins.
They didn’t talk about the murder.
They just talked.
Several months after they stopped meeting regularly, Gentry moved in with Brad.
Several months after that, they were married.
Around that time, they managed to get a loan and bought the Better Times Motel.
The first thing they did was replace the chain link with an attractive fence down either side, which went from the road to the mountain at the rear of the property.
The next thing they did was gut the rooms and tear down the sign.
They had help from townsfolk, free services and even some materials were offered.
And six months later, they reopened the newly christened Blue Mountain Motel.
They had Wi-Fi, and great cable with premium subscriptions, and set cute chairs outside the rooms to sit in and watch the cars go by or stare at the stars overhead.
They’d built a deck and bar by the pool and got their liquor license.
They’d taken out the pamphlet stands and had a giftshop in the lobby with local wares for sale.
With Gentry’s flair, the rooms were trendy and comfortable, and even though Gentry and Brad were up to their necks in debt, that didn’t last for long, because the place became a mecca for Millennials and Generation Z to have affordable Instagrammable adventures, and it was booked every season.
In the midst of renovations, a local artist known for his work on the Aromacobana building showed out of the blue and started painting a mural on the side of the building.
The mural was a river rushing through pine trees.
And if you looked close enough, in the spray of the water, you could see the name Brittanie streaming over the rocks into infinity.
The Women:
It would take some time before Shannon visibly reentered life in Misted Pines.
She did this getting a job at Aromacabana, which helped her pay for her online classes.
She was studying to be a teacher.
The transformation was slow, but it happened, and the hoodies, mousy hair and chipped nail polish gradually disappeared, and the woman Shannon was meant to be before that journey was interrupted emerged.
Rus would run into her later, and at first, he didn’t recognize her.
Part of that was because she was smiling.
Rus would also often run into Lana and Dean, who was an extremely good-looking man and younger than her. He was all about affability and warmth, and he openly doted on Lana and her two boys from her previous marriage.
To Rus’s way of thinking, they were the perfect couple.
Lucinda agreed, and on occasion, the four of them would have dinner together at Rus and Lucinda’s table at the club.
Thea’s clientele kept growing so much, she was able to quit her job at the Joy of Joy and do it full time.
This didn’t last long because it stopped being fun and started to become a grind.
She then limited her clients to the ones she liked working with and got a job working for Kimmy at the holiday shop on Main Street.
Ellen Macklemore sold her house and moved out of town, her whereabouts also unknown.
Sherri Corbin reclaimed her maiden name, Nagle, and moved into a home in that neighborhood.
The exact number of members of that crew was eighteen by the time of Corbin’s death, with Sherri being number nineteen.
By the time things settled down, there were only two families in that subdivision of twenty-five homes who weren’t members of the group, and their houses were for sale, both in escrow, because they’d accepted offers of women moving in from out of town.
They didn’t cause any trouble.
The sheriff’s police kept an eye on them anyway.
The Men:
Michael Mitchell, Dylan Rogers and Austin Brooks all eventually moved away.
It was rumored that Michael was having grave issues dealing with his assault.
It was also rumored that Austin had tried to take his own life, twice.
Dylan Rogers left to accept a job in Las Vegas, but it was rumored he was fired from it shortly after. Even so, he didn’t return to Misted Pines.
Tyler Cook’s folks still lived in MP, but if they ever wanted to see their son, they went to Spokane to visit him.
The Crystal Killer:
The media was frothing at the mouth after the FBI Seattle Division Chief held a press conference where he made the announcement that the Crystal Killer had turned himself in to an FBI agent after murdering Ezra Corbin and Carrie Molnar because they copied his crimes.
The fact this happened in the sleepy town in rural Washington state that had another high-profile case alongside a salacious scandal just a year before sent them into a frenzy.