Chapter 221

{Harper's POV}

"Is this Bannon's Corner Store?"

"Yes." An older voice, gravelly, unhurried, the kind that came with decades of standing behind a counter somewhere.

"How much for it?"

A pause. "What do you mean?"

"I want to buy it," I said. "The whole place."

Another pause, longer this time, like he was checking whether I was actually serious or just wasting his afternoon.

"I don't know. Maybe two