Deeper Than Need by Walker Shiloh

Author:Walker, Shiloh [Walker, Shiloh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466825888
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-06-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“Now, Leslie … I don’t know exactly what you expect me to do,” Noah said, fighting hard not to let any sign of temper show in his voice.

It was hard, though. He’d let her calls go to voice mail throughout the day, but in retrospect maybe he should have just called her up and gotten it over with instead of putting it off until he was done working.

All Leslie had done was get madder and madder, and now here she was, glaring at him over the bed of his truck. She’d been waiting for him when he got back to the shop and he’d felt the dread rush through him the second he’d seen her car.

“I want you to come out and do the damn work, Noah! That’s your job, ain’t it?” She shoved her hair back, face flushed, one thin hand clutched into in a fist so tight her knuckles were white.

“I’d be happy to, once a deposit is made. I can take a check, cash or credit card.”

“I’ll pay once the work is fucking done, just like I always have.” She skimmed a look around the shop, her gaze bouncing off the shelves, his truck, before landing on him for the briefest moment. “We’ve never had a problem doing it that way before.”

“Actually we have. You never paid what you owed me on the last job.” The mention of that had her getting redder and she opened her mouth, but he cut her off. “I wrote that debt off, but I’m not doing it again. If you want me to do any more work for you, ever, there will be a deposit made, up front, and monthly payments. That’s just how it is.”

She glared daggers at him.

He bit back a sigh. She wasn’t going to let this go without it getting ugly.

Bad things come in threes.

The thought hit him out of the blue, and although he wasn’t superstitious by nature, he couldn’t help think of that old belief. First the body found out at Trinity’s. Then Lee’s death. Half the town was buzzing around like a bunch of angry hornets and it looked like Leslie was definitely in that camp.

“I don’t have the money right now,” she said, her voice unsteady.

What a surprise. He looked away, reaching into the truck bed for his tools. “I’d be happy to come back and do another estimate—to figure out what is absolutely necessary and what could be put off for a few more months.”

“I need it all done,” she said, her voice practically shaking. “I want to sell the damn house and get out of this place. But I can’t do that until that shit is fixed. I don’t know how to do any of that, Noah.…”

Her voice shifted, lowered to a husky pitch as she circled around the truck, her lashes sweeping down over her eyes. “Look. I’m sorry about the money. You don’t know what it’s like. Mike up and left me broke. Took all the money we had in the bank, left the place such a mess.

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