Forever Mine: Callaghan Brothers, Book 9 by Abbie Zanders

Author:Abbie Zanders [Zanders, Abbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Abbie Zanders Romance
Published: 2016-04-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Jack!”

“What?!” Jack looked up from the ledger to find Brian standing in front of him. Judging by the sharpness of Brian’s tone, it wasn’t the first time he’d called his name. Jack had been so immersed in the account books, he hadn’t heard much of anything.

“The distributor’s here, wants a check.” Brian thumbed over his shoulder at the middle-aged guy sitting at the bar with Danny Finnegan. Based on their smiles and laughter, they were on friendly terms.

“Did he pay for that drink?”

“No. The old man told me to put it on his tab.”

Jack snorted. That would have fine, if the old man ever actually paid his tab.

“Got an invoice?”

Brian held the piece of paper out to him. Jack looked it over, his brows furrowing as he read through the several lines of handwritten items. “That’s more than double the amount of Macallan we ordered last month.”

The top-shelf, single-malt Scotch was arguably one of the best, but at its hefty price tag, it was not one of the big sellers among the primarily blue-collar patrons. Brian’s eyes flicked back to Danny again, and Jack had a pretty good idea of where it was going.

His furrows deepened when he saw similarly inflated numbers for high quality bourbon, gin, and vodka. Who had adjusted the order? Brian wouldn’t have, not without running it by him first, and neither would Kathleen.

“Excuse me.” Jack approached the delivery man, glancing down at the name stitched onto the pocket of the blue button-down. Sal. “There’s been a mistake. This is more than I ordered.”

Sal shot a sideways glance at Danny, and Jack’s suspicions were confirmed. Danny had padded the order. That explained the bottles Kathleen had seen Danny sneaking out, as well as why he hadn’t noticed a hit on the inventory. It was hard to miss what you didn’t know you had.

Jack didn’t know what bothered him more – the fact that Danny was taking it upon himself to up the order, or that Danny didn’t think he’d notice. Granted, he hadn’t been looming over anyone’s shoulder, but he hadn’t really thought he’d needed to, either.

Well, he was going to put an end to that, right now. Keeping Danny around out of a sense of moral obligation was one thing, but being taken advantage of was another.

And there was no way his pregnant wife was going to work three fucking jobs so Danny Finnegan could “buy” a bunch of friends with top-shelf liquor using the Pub’s accounts.

“Mr. Finnegan no longer owns the bar, Sal,” Jack said clearly. “I do, which means I determine what we will stock and how much, not Mr. Finnegan. Is that clear?”

Jack blacklined several of the items and put a corrected version of the receipt on the bar, along with a check for substantially less than the original invoice. “This is what I ordered, and this is what I will pay for. Take the rest of it back. Unless, of course, Mr. Finnegan is planning on paying the difference?”

Color rushed to the older man’s cheeks, and fire blazed in his eyes.

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