Forever Mine (Paradise Place Book 9) by Natalie Ann

Author:Natalie Ann [Ann, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-06T16:00:00+00:00

16

The Boyfriend

A few days later, Trey was going through a filing cabinet at the firehouse and turned when he heard, “What are you doing here on your day off?”

Jim was the captain on shift. “I’m working on another job today. I went to check the ducts at a different part of the house and went through the kitchen and it looks like an addition is being put on. There were open wires everywhere. I want to see the building permit.”

“That should be available at the house,” Jim said.

“It should be, but I wasn’t there as a code enforcer. I was there as a furnace repairman. However, that is a fire hazard if I ever saw one. I mentioned something to the woman at the house and she said she had no clue what was going on. Her parents had asked her to stay there to let him in and that is all she was doing.”

Jim snorted. “Got to love people cutting corners like that.”

“Yep and if something catches fire we are all at risk.” He was moving through and didn’t find it. “Shit. I didn’t want to go to City Hall and look for it and hoped it’d be here.”

“Give me the name and I’ll call since I’m on shift.” He wrote it down for Jim. He could call himself but not being on duty, he’d rather not. “I’m on hold. Are you done working there for the day?”

“Yeah. I finished up and left.”

Jim went back to the call, then jotted down some notes.

“Thanks, I appreciate it.”

“Well, do they have a permit?”

“They do, but no one has gone out to check on it or gotten any calls that the work was completed. It was issued over five months ago.”

“I hope those wires haven’t been like that for long,” he said but had a feeling it might be. The house was a mess and looked like the homeowners had projects started and stopped all over. He didn’t know how anyone could live like that.

“It won’t be good to have you calling to check up on it, so I’ll give it to Dan to take care of. Getting a call that an inspection is happening will at least get the wires cleaned up or they will be fined.”

“Thanks,” he said, getting ready to leave.

“What’s your hurry?” Jim asked. “I heard you were dating someone.”

That is what his hurry was. He didn’t talk about his personal life often and didn’t want to now. It’s not like he was hiding this, but in the small fire community people gossiped. Not to mention he knew Butler Construction sent in a big donation last week to their station.

He’d been a little annoyed and slightly embarrassed over it, but the chief had said, “Thank God our station got it this year.” Seemed the Butlers rotated around the city and that made him feel better. It’s not like he hadn’t been to some of their worksites over the years. As a code enforcer too, he was checking out properties, but he didn’t run into the Butlers often.

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