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Jack should have known he was in trouble by the stares he received when he told the clerk who he was.
Or to be specific WHERE he was staying....
The reaction that came made it clear enough, the order he had given the not bad looking woman torn to shreds by a large, glaring man who announced himself as the owner of the store....and added...
"You won't get anything from this business...EVER! And that goes for the majority of the others in town too, once I've made a few phone calls."
Jack shook his head and walked out of the hardware store, wondering just why the man had called the house what he had...but knowing that it wasn't the time or place to pick a fight with the man...
Not that he wasn't capable of holding his own...at six two Jack weighed in slightly over two hundred pounds, and every inch of him was lean, rugged muscle...and in a fight he was a coiled and dangerous thing to mess with...
He had smiled, then nodded...His blue eyes bright and dark tanned face making his teeth even brighter as he kept the smile on until he walked out the door and to the next store...to hear the same almost cursed words and be told politely to return the way he walked in...empty handed.
After several hours Jack knew the first store owner had kept his word, and admitting defeat for the time being he returned to the house, to make his own phone calls and order the supplies he needed to get the job done...
Then wait a week before a truck with out of state plates arrived and began unloading crate after crate of tools, paint and lumber...until finally the bill was presented and Jack paid the bill, tipping the pair of men generously so they'd be sure to remember him the right way ...next trip.
The supplies got Jack through the top floor...and with the ads placed in out of town newspapers he had greater hopes of getting the Bed & Breakfast off to a start...if only for a long enough time to sell it and get it off of his hands...and be out of the town that shunned him as if he had an ancient and deadly plague.
It was an eery existence. The merchants refused to sell him even a light bulb, but the grocery and restaurants would cater to him as long as they knew it was for himself...and no one else...
Jack wondered what would happen when his first guests arrived, would the towns people band together for an old fashioned lynching? Or perhaps they'd burn him at the stake?
He'd cross that bridge when he came to it, Jack knew, and he wouldn't be tossed off of it without a fight...it just wasn't his way...he was, if anything, a determined man once he made his mind up...
For now he'd continue in the direction he was headed, keeping to himself and not expecting any favors, so he could get the tasks done...and out of town...
Or to be specific WHERE he was staying....
The reaction that came made it clear enough, the order he had given the not bad looking woman torn to shreds by a large, glaring man who announced himself as the owner of the store....and added...
"You won't get anything from this business...EVER! And that goes for the majority of the others in town too, once I've made a few phone calls."
Jack shook his head and walked out of the hardware store, wondering just why the man had called the house what he had...but knowing that it wasn't the time or place to pick a fight with the man...
Not that he wasn't capable of holding his own...at six two Jack weighed in slightly over two hundred pounds, and every inch of him was lean, rugged muscle...and in a fight he was a coiled and dangerous thing to mess with...
He had smiled, then nodded...His blue eyes bright and dark tanned face making his teeth even brighter as he kept the smile on until he walked out the door and to the next store...to hear the same almost cursed words and be told politely to return the way he walked in...empty handed.
After several hours Jack knew the first store owner had kept his word, and admitting defeat for the time being he returned to the house, to make his own phone calls and order the supplies he needed to get the job done...
Then wait a week before a truck with out of state plates arrived and began unloading crate after crate of tools, paint and lumber...until finally the bill was presented and Jack paid the bill, tipping the pair of men generously so they'd be sure to remember him the right way ...next trip.
The supplies got Jack through the top floor...and with the ads placed in out of town newspapers he had greater hopes of getting the Bed & Breakfast off to a start...if only for a long enough time to sell it and get it off of his hands...and be out of the town that shunned him as if he had an ancient and deadly plague.
It was an eery existence. The merchants refused to sell him even a light bulb, but the grocery and restaurants would cater to him as long as they knew it was for himself...and no one else...
Jack wondered what would happen when his first guests arrived, would the towns people band together for an old fashioned lynching? Or perhaps they'd burn him at the stake?
He'd cross that bridge when he came to it, Jack knew, and he wouldn't be tossed off of it without a fight...it just wasn't his way...he was, if anything, a determined man once he made his mind up...
For now he'd continue in the direction he was headed, keeping to himself and not expecting any favors, so he could get the tasks done...and out of town...