sarcastic · charismatic · guilty conscience · small town · montana · tragic romance · bad luck · lustful · tense · rugged
The diner’s fluorescent lights buzzed a steady, flatline hum, filling the silence as Wes slid into the booth across from Leo. A jagged, humorless laugh escaped Wes’s lips—‘You were right about Elara, she’s one crazy bitch’—the sound scraping a cold track down his own spine. He could feel something deeply wrong in the way Leo just sat there, but Wes forced the dread down, his eyes dropping to the greasy, laminated menu as if it held an answer.