Erotic Tales of the Nyphrazi - Complete 7 Part Series by Minky St Anne

Author:Minky St Anne [St Anne, Minky]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

It doesn’t look as bad as I thought it would,” says Ben, continuing to gawp at the hull that towers over us.

“You going to paint it while it’s out of the water?”

“For sure,” says Ben, poking the hull experimentally. That a large patch of paint and rust falls away as a result of his gentle prodding merely reinforces this decision.

We’re wandering around underneath the boat examining it from all angles when, Steve, a mechanic friend of Ben’s, turns up. He proceeds to give The Beast a far more thorough check than we have, crawling over it inside and out before poking around in the diesel engine. All the while he’s furiously scribbling in a tatty notebook that he keeps putting down and losing. But after an hour he finally declares that she’s sea-worthy. Just.

“He said the hull would have been worse if it hadn’t been coated with some copper-nickel product,” says Ben, looking at the very bottom of the boat. “Apparently that’s why there are so few barnacles.”

With Steve on his way with a small keg of beer as payment, we don’t have to wait long before Stan the realtor shows up, keen for a sale.

“So, folks,” he says, actually rubbing his hands together, “do we have a deal?”

“Forty. Cash,” says Ben, baldly, resulting in Stan cringing like a whipped puppy.

Cash? So much for me worrying I’d have to pitch in for a mortgage. I hadn’t realized Ben was so cash-rich.

“That’s a lot less than the vendor is looking for,” says Stan, no doubt thinking of his commission.

“There’s too much that needs doing for me to pay the full asking price,” says Ben, holding up several sheets of torn paper that list the fixes Steve has recommended.

Stan runs his finger down what looks to be a worryingly long list. “Ah, that,” he says, under his breath, although it’s loud enough for both Ben and I to hear.

“What happened to full disclosure?” I say, remembering something I’d heard on a property show.

Stan coughs hard rather than answer this, before saying “I’ll put the offer to the vendor then, shall I?”

I think Stan’s going to have a coronary when Ben changes the sum on the sales paperwork to thirty five thousand before signing it. In answer to the realtor’s unspoken question, Ben says “If you were hiding the keel being dodgy, then I need to make sure I’ve got enough in the budget in case I uncover any other shonky shit.”

Stan looks as though he’s going to argue, but there’s nothing forthcoming and it’s with a look of resignation that he collects the paperwork off the hood of Ben’s truck before trundling off to a gaudily sign-written sedan that’s seen better days.

“Cheeky bastard,” says Ben, as soon as the realtor is safely inside his moving billboard.

“Do you reckon there’s enough in the pot to fix everything?”

“Yeah, I’ll hose in. Steve said a couple of grand should sort the keel. Everything else, I can fix myself.”

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